Thirteenth Amendment
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Ended/banned slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
14th
Citizenship to Blacks and full protection
under the law (life, liberty & property).
Fifteenth Amendment
15th
Right to vote regardless of race, color
or previous condition of servitude.
Black Codes
laws created by Southern governments
to limit the rights of former slaves
Segregation
It kept Blacks and Whites separate
Reconstruction
rebuilding the South and bringing the
southern states back into the Union
Freedman’s Bureau
established by Congress to assist
former slaves including food, medical
care and education
Carpetbaggers
northerners who went to the South
after the Civil War to gain money
and political power
Civil Rights Act of 1866
granted full citizenship rights to
freedmen, giving them the same rights
as whites
Discrimination
treating someone unfairly because of
their race, gender, religion, or place of
birth
Racial
having to do with someone's race (i.e.
color of their skin)
Robert E. Lee
Urged Southerners to reconcile at the
end of the war and reunite as
Americans
President of Washington College
Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction plan called for
reconciliation (make-up/get back
together)
Frederick Douglass
Wanted constitutional amendments
that guaranteed voting rights