History Ch. 17 Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Reconstruction

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The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union

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13th Amendment

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This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States

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Freedmen's Bureau

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An agency providing relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South

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14th Amendment

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A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States except for American Indians

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Impeachment

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The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

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Poll Tax

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A special tax people had to pay before they could vote

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Segregation

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The forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places

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Sharecropping

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A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops