13th amendment, abolished slavery, 14th amendment, granted citizenship to former slaves, 15th amendment, gave black men the right to vote, Black codes, Texas laws that denied African-Americans civil rights, Civil Rights Act of 1866, gave citizenship and basic rights to African-Americans, Freedmen's Bureau, department created to provide help and legal aid to former slaves, Ku Klux Klan, secret society that threatened African-Americans to prevent them from voting, Radical Republicans, members of the Republican Party committed to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of former slaves, Reconstruction, time period when the U.S. began the process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states, Reconstruction Act of 1867, divided the south into 5 military districts, carpetbaggers, northerners who moved South and carried their belongings in a bag made of carpet, civil rights, individual rights guaranteed to people by the U.S. Constitution, freedmen, former slaves, scalawags, term given to southerners who supported Reconstruction for personal economic gain, sharecroppers, farmers who lacked land and supplies and promised a portion of their crop to the landowner in exchange for needed supplies, suffrage, the right to vote.

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