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Reconstruction
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 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) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials |
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 |
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 |