reconstruction vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
assasination | murder of political or government leader |
Reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became the president after Lincoln was killed |
13th Amendment | abolsished slavery |
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 could hold office or vote. Made by U.S congress |
Freedoms Bureau | Formed schools and hospitals. |
Carpet baggers | people who come from the north to start a business in the south |
scalwags | southerners who supported Reconstruction |
14th Amenment | gave African Americans citizenshipand the right to equal protection |
15th Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote ( including African Americans) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an a elected officals |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an a elected officals |
segragation | separation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after reconstruction that enforced segragation |
Sharecropping | renting land from land owners paying rent with a proportion of the crop |
abrigre | take taken shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due process | all steps taken to preserve the rights of citizenship |
naturallization | to give the rights a be a ciizenship |
obligation | a promise contract or sense of duty |
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