reconstruction vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
assanation | murder of a political or 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 the civil war and made the African Americans from having rights |
REconstruction arts of 1867 | gave the african american men the right to vote no former confederate could hold office or vote |
Freedmans bureau | formed to help freed slaves it build hospitals and schools |
carpetbagger | people who came from the north to the south |
scalawags | southerners who supported reconsruction |
14th ammendment | gave all people citizenship |
15th ammendmant | gave all black men the right to vote |
impeachment | charges of wrong doing by an elected officials by congress |
segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after reconsruction that enforced segragation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of crop |
grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
involuntary servitude | having to serve not by ones owns 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 infulence |
abridge | to take away, shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due process | all steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give rights of being a citizen to someone not born in US |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |
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