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Word Study 10 Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Freedmen | men and women who had been enslaved |
Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan for the south to rejoin the Union |
Amnesty | a government pardon |
Wade Davis Bill | a rival plan to the Ten Percent Plan proposed by Republicans in Congress |
Freedmen's Bureau | a government agency to help former slaves (Republicans in Congress and Lincoln agreed.) |
Thirteenth Amendment | change added to the constitution that banned slavery in the nation |
Black codes | laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen |
Fourteenth Amendment | change added to the constitution that defined citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" |
Radical Reconstruction | Period when Republicans controlled both house of Congress and took charge of Reconstruction. |
Reconstruction Act | a law that threw out Southern state governments that had not ratified the 14th Amendment and placed them under the control of 5 military districts |
Impeach | to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official |
Fifteenth Amendment | change to the Constitution that forbad any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
Scalawags | a word used for a small scruffy horse, white Southern Republicans were called this (seen as traitors) |