reconciliation , the re-establishment of friendly relationships, Civil Rights Act of 1866, law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens; also authorized the use of federal troops for its enforcement., Reconstruction, the years between 1865-1877 when the nation reunited and rebuilt after the Civil War ended, amnesty, a pardon to a group of people, sharecropper, a farmer who pays for using a piece of land with a portion of a crop grown on that land, black codes, limited the economic and physical freedom of former slaves, 15th amendment , ensures all citizens the right to vote, supremacy, a belief that a person or group is better than others because of a trait such as skin color, culture, or religion, amendment, a change or addition to the U.S. Constitution, carpetbaggers , a person from the North who went to the South to help the newly freed slaves, scalawags , white southerners considered traitors to their race because they accepted Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmans Bureau , government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves, 13th amendment , bans slavery, Compromise of 1877, ended Reconstruction; removed federal troops from South, 14th amendment , grants citizenship and equal protection.

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