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History vocab1
reconstruction vocab
Definition | Term |
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Black codes | Laws passed in the Southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans |
Civil Rights Act | 1866 Laws that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans |
Jim Crow laws | Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states |
reconciliation | re-establishment of friendly relations |
Reconstruction | (1865-1877) |
Reconstruction Acts | (1867-1868) - Laws that put the southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment |