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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | rebuilding of the south |
| 13 amendment | congress had approved in January 1865 |
| black codes | laws that severely limited the rights of freedom |
| radical republicans | vowed to take control reconstruction |
| 14 amendment | to avoid a similar ruling, republicans proposed the fourteenth amendment |
| impeach | bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official |
| 15 amendment | forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of the race color |
| Jim crow laws | laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south |
| Plessy V Ferguson | 1896 court case in which the supreme court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal |