reconstruction vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
assassination | murder of a political government leader |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after lincoln was killed |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
black codes | laws made by the south before 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 buinesses in the south |
scalawags | southerners who supported reconstruction |
14th amendment | gave african americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law |
15th amendmet | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote ( included African Americans ) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by congress |
segregation | seperation |
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 | exceptions 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 being a citizen |
naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise contract or sense of duty |
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