Reconstruction Vocab
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| Assasination | Murder of a political or government.
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| Reconstruction | Rebuilding and Healing a country after war.
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| Andrew Johnson | Became President after Lincoln was killed.
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| Black Codes | Laws kept 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 Congress.
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| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery.
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| Freedmans Bureau | Formed to helped freed slaves.
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| Carpetbagger | Northerners who came to the to the south to start businesses.
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| Scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
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| 14 Amendment | Gave African Americans the citizenship and the right to have equal protection under the law.
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| 15 Amendment | Gave all male citizens the right to vote.
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| Impechment | Charges of wrong doing of an elected official.
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| Segregation | Seperation.
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| Jim Crow Laws | Laws past after Reconstruction that enforced segregation.
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| Sharecropping | Renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop.
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| Grandfather Clause | Exceptions put into law to make change easier.
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| Involuntary Servitude | Having to serve not by ones choice. Slavery
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| Deprive | To remove or take away.
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| Special Prevliges | Be 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 or shorten.
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| Insurrection | Rebellion against your own.
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| Due Process | The steps to preserve the rights of citizens.
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| Naturalization | To give the rights of being US citizen to someone not born in the US.
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| Obligation | A promise, a contract, or a sense of duty.
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