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Reconstruction vocab

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Assassination   murder of a political or government leader  
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Reconstruction   rebuilding and healing a nation after a war  
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Andrew Johnson   became president after Lincoln was killed  
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13th Amendment   abolished slavery  
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black codes   laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights  
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Reconstruction Act of 1867   gave African American men the right to vote. no former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by US concress  
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Freedmen's Bureau   Formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitlas and school  
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carpetbagger   people who came from the north to start a business in the south  
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14th Amendment   gave African American citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law  
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15th Amendment   gave ALL (including African Americans) men the right to vote  
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impeached   charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by congress  
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segregation   separation  
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Jim Crow Laws   laws passed after reconstruction that enforced segragation  
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sharecropping   renting land from landowner and paying rent with a portion of the crop  
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grandfather clause   exceptions put in laws to make changes easier  
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involuntary servitude   having to serve not by one's own choice, slavery  
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deprive   to remove or take away  
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special privileges   being allowed to do something others are not  
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area of control   jurisdiction, where one has influence  
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abridge   to take away, shorten  
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insurrection   rebellion against your own country  
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due process   all the steps to preserve the rights of citizens  
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naturalization   to give the rights of being a citizen to someone  
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obligation   a promise, contract, or sense of duty  
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