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Reconstruction
Reconstruction Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Reconstruction | The rebuilding and healing of the country |
Amendment | A change or addition |
Impeachment | The bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money |
Segregation | The division of groups of people, usually by race |
Black Codes | A group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, kept African Americans from owning guns or taking certain types of jobs |
13th Amendment | Abolished (ended) slavery |
14th Amendment | Made all citizens equal before the law |
15th Amendment | Gave all male citizens the right to vote |
Sharecropping | A system in which someone who owns land lets someone "rent" the land to farm it |