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,

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