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The period following the Civil War during which the US government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states.
what is Reconstruction
Laws passed in the Southern States during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African-Americans.
what is Black Codes
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
what is Impeachment
A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.
what is Poll Tax
President Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction; once 10% of Voters in a formal Confederate State took a U.S. loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be remitted to the union.
what is Ten Percent Plan
Members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be re-emitted to the union.
what is Radical Republicans
A constitutional amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote.
what is Fifteenth Amendment
The four separation of people of different races in public places .
what is Segregation
A constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery.
what is Thirteenth Amendment
A law that gave African-Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans.
what is Civil Rights Act of 1866
A secret society created by a white Southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
what is Ku Klux Klan
A law that enforced segregation in the southern states.
what is Jim Crow Laws
An agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.
what is Freedmen’s Bureau
A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.
what is Fourteenth Amendment
Laws passed by Congress that made it a crime to interfere with Elections or deny citizens equal protection under the law.
what is Enforcement Acts
US Supreme Court case that established the separate built equal Doctrine for public faculties.
what is Plessy v Ferguson
The 17th president of the United States of America.
what is Andrew Johnson
The laws that put the southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th amendments.
what is Reconstruction Acts
An agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876 Democrats agreed to accept Republican Ruth B. Hayes as a president and return for the removal of Federate troops from the south.
what is Compromise of 1877
A system used on the southern farms after the Civil War in which Farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
what is Sharecropping