13th Amendment, The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States., 14th Amendment, The amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law., 15th Amendment, The amendment that gave Black men the right to vote., Black Codes, These were laws that were designed to limit the freedom of Black Americans. These codes often restricted where Black people could live, work, and travel and tried to keep them in a system similar to slavery., Freedmen’s Bureau, The federal government created this program to support newly freed Black Americans, providing food, housing, education, and legal support., Carpetbaggers, These were Northerners who moved South to help with rebuilding—or, as critics claimed, to profit from the chaos., Scalawags, White Southerners who supported Reconstruction and protections for newly freed Black Americans., The Lost Cause, This narrative claimed the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery but about states’ rights. This idea tried to make Confederate leaders into heroes and downplayed the cruelty of slavery..

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