Term | Definition |
Assassination | Murder of a political or government leader |
Reconstruction | Rebuliding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | Became President after Lincoln was killed |
Black Codes | Laws made by the South before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | 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 |
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 | Expectations 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 |