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

Reconstruction

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