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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th amendment | formally bring an end to slavery in the United States making it illegal |
| 14th amendments | grants citizenship and equal protection under the law |
| 15th amendment | grants African American males the right to vote |
| abolish | to formally put an end to |
| black codes | laws established by southern state governments after the civil war to restrict the rights to formerly enslaved persons |
| freedmen's bureau | An agency to help provide food education and medical care to freedom slaves |
| Jim crow laws | a series of racist laws and measures that discriminated against African American |
| lynching | to put death usually by hanging by a mob and without legal authority |
| radical republicans | a section of the Republican party that wanted to punish the south for the civil war |
| reconstruction | the time period after the civil war when america needed to reunite and rebuild |
| secede | to withdraw from membershipin a federal union |
| segregation | the legal separation of different racial groups in a country community or establishment |
| separate but equal | practice that was established to justify racial segregation in public facilities |