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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | period after the Civil War when the federal government ruled the Southern states |
| 13th Amendment | made slavery illegal in all states of the Union |
| 14th Amendment | grants citizenship to all person born in the U.S.; guarantees equal protection and due process under the law |
| 15th Amendment | prohibits the government from denying the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" |
| Freedman's Bureau | government agency created to help former slaves and poor white Southerners after the Civil War |
| carpetbaggers | Northerner who went to the South during Reconstruction |
| scalawag | white Southerner who supported Radical Republicans during Reconstruction |
| Black Codes | laws passed to limit and control the actions of African-Americans after the Civil War |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws in Southern states that forced the segregation of the races |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that supported segregation; "separate but equal" |