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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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13th | abolished slavery |
14th | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law |
15th | gave all male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
Reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
black codes | laws made by the south before the civil war to keep African Americans from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote. No former confederate leaders could hold office of vote. Made by US congress |
Freedman's Bureau | formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitals and schools |
carpetbagger | people who came from the north to start businesses in the south |
scalawags | southerners who supported reconstruction |
inpeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected official by congress |
segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced slavery. |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
involuntary servitude | having to serve not by one's own choice ,slavery |
deprive | to move or take away |
special privileges | immunities, being allowed to do something others are not |
area of control | jurisdiction, where one has influence |
abridge | to take away, shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due process | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the right of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |