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