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History USII.3
Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | Banned Slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Granted citizenship to people born in the U.S. and gave equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | ensures citizens the right to vote |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | African Americans gained equal rights |
| Who supervised the South during Reconstruction? | federal troops |
| Freedmen's Bureau | established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South |
| in 1877 | Reconstruction ended |
| Jim Crow Laws | affected African American and American Indians; segregation |
| carpetbaggers | term used by southerners who resented northerners who came south during Reconstruction |
| Robert E. Lee | urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war |
| Frederick Douglass | fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights |
| Abraham Lincoln | believed the preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south |
| Reconcile | to restore friendly relations |
| Black Codes | Southern states attempts to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves |