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Reconstruction vocab
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 clivil war to keep African Americas from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote. No former confederate leaders could hold office to vote. Made my 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 make citizens the right to vote (included African America) |
impeachment | charges of wrong doing by an elected officials by congress |
segregation | separation |
Jim crow laws | Laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from land owners an 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 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 citizens to someone not born in US |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |