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Laws, Acts, and Amendments
Laws, Acts and Amendments
100
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the union.
Reconstruction
100
Lincoln's Vice President, took over after assassination.
Andrew Johnson
100
This Amendment made slavery illegal throughout the US.
Thirteenth Ammendment
100
This Amendment gave congress more power and citizens more rights.
Fourteenth Amendments
200
People who wanted the federal government to force change in the south.
Radical Republicans
200
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
300
Process used by legislature to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
Impeachment
300
African American politician
Hiram Revels
300
This act Provided African americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
300
Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
400
Forced separation between whites and blacks in public places
Segregation
400
Secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
400
A special tax people had to pay in order to vote
Poll Tax
400
Democrats wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the south.
Compromise of 1877
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