vocab
to put up with
tolerate
to find a solution for
resolved
Abraham Lincoln
the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
reconstruction
the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law
civil rights
Andrew Johnson
laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
black codes
laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
Jim Crow laws
presedent in the 1970
Ulysses S Grant
a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person was once enslaved
Fifteenth Amendment
an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
Freedmen’s Bureau
a very important freeman
Frederick Douglass
a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law
Fourteenth Amendment
a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
Thirteenth Amendment