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Reconstruction Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 Of 1867 | gave Afican American men the right to vote.No former confederate leaders could hold office or vote.Made by Congress |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Form to help freed slaves.It build hospitals and schools |
| Carpetbaggers | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
| Scalawags | Southerns who suppoted Reconstuction |
| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protectionunder the law |
| 15th Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (including Africans Americans) |
| Impeachment Officials | chrages of wrongdoing by an elected by Congress |
| Segregation | seperation |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstuction that enforced segergation |
| Sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent |
| Grandfather Claws | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
| Involuntary Servitude | having to serve not by ones's owns choice, slavery |
| Deprive | to remove or taken 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 sence of duty |