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RECONSTRUCTION
| 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 | gave African American men the right to vote. Of 1867 |
| 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 | |
| 14th Amendment | |
| 15th Amendment | |
| impeachment | |
| segregation | |
| Jim Crow Laws | |
| sharecropping | |
| grandfather clause | |
| involuntary servitude | |
| deprive |