Reconstruction Chapter 8 5th Test 10

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John Wilkes Booth: Actor who sympathized with the South and assassinated President Lincoln.

Assassinated: To kill for a political reasons.

Andrew Johnson: Vice President from Tennessee who became President When Lincoln was assassinated.

Reconstruction: The time when the South was rebuilt and reunited with the rest of the U.S. after the Civil War.

Impeachment: Charges of wrongdoing against a person in office, such as a president.

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Freedmen’s Bureau: Agency formed by the U.S. government to help freed slaves.

Thirteenth Amendment: Amendment to Constitution that ended slavery in the U.S.

Fourteenth Amendment: Amendment to Constitution that protects every person born in the U.S. from any state law that takes away their rights as citizens.

15th Amendment: Gave African-American males the right to vote.

Sharecropping: System of farming in which a sharecropper, worked on a landowner’s farm in exchange for supplies to farm and a place to live, the profits were shared between the two, but it was usually not fair to the sharecropper.

Suffrage: The right to vote to every male citizen.

Jim Crow Laws: were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.

Fisk University: barely six months after the end of the Civil War and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the school Fisk Free Colored School was opened in Nashville, for the education of freedmen.

Rutherford B. Hayes: (1877) The election of Hayes ended Reconstruction.

Assignment: Write a paper about what Reconstruction was and why Andrew Johnson was Impeached. Standards 5.21 & 5.22

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