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Reconsturction
reconsturction
Term | Definition |
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assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
Reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln was killed |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
black codes | laws made by the South before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights Reconstruction Act gave African American men the right to vote. Of 1867 No former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by US Congress |
Freedmen’s Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and schools. |
carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction |
14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law |
15th Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
segregation | separation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
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 remove 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 rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |