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Reconstruction
Term | Definition |
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assassination | murder of political or government leader |
Reconstruction | rebuilding and healing the country after the Civil War |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln's death |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
black codes | laws made by the south after Civil War to keep A.A. from having rights |
Reconstruction Act Of 1867 | gave A.A. men right to vote. No former Confederate leader could hold office or vote |
Freedmen's Bureau | helped freed slaves and pour whites. Built hospitals and schools |
carpetbagger | Northerners that came to the South to start a buisness |
scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction |
14th Amendment | gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law |
15th Amendment | gave ALL citizens the right to vote (even A.A .) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
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 steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the U.S. |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |