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| Reconstruction | period following the Civil War during which the government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states |
| amnesty | an official pardon issued by the government for an illegal act |
| 13th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South. |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the southern states that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans |
| 14th Amendment | Constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., except for Native Americans |
| Reconstruction Acts | laws that put the southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment |
| 15th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret society created by white southerners that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law allowing African Americans to sue private businesses for racial discrimination |
| Compromise of 1877 | agreement to settle election dispute of 1876; Hayes will be president as long as federal troops are removed from the South |
| poll tax | a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote |
| segregation | forced separation of people of different races in public places |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that enforced segregation in the southern states |
| Plessy v Ferguson | U.S. Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities |
| sharecropping | system in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops |
