Reconstruction Era, The period after the Civil War (1865–1877) when the U.S. worked to rebuild the South, Andrew Johnson, President after Lincoln was assassinated , Black Codes, Laws passed in the South to limit the freedoms of freed blacks, 13th Amendment, Amendment that abolished slavery in all US States , Ku Klux Klan, A terrorist group that targeted freed slaves, 14th Amendment, Amendment that granted citizenship to all people born in the United States; gave them equal protection , Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States, 15th Amendment, Amendment that allowed all men, regardless of race and color, to vote, Poll Tax, Tax used by South to prevent freed slaves from voting; required them to pay a tax to vote, Literacy Test, Test used by South to prevent freed slaves from voting; required them to pass a read and write test to vote, Segregation, Separated by race; South said they were equal but separate , Freedmen's Bureau , A government agency created to help newly freed African Americans by providing food, housing, education, Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, assassinated at the end of the Civil War, Rutherford Hayes, 19th President at the end of Reconstruction, Compromise of 1877, Ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the South.

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