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| black codes | discriminatory laws passed throughtout post Civil War South which severly restricted African-American lives, things like: prohibiting travel without permits, carry weapons, serving on juries, etc. |
| Reconstruction | the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union |
| Civil Rights Act | 1866, granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans |
| Ulysses Grant | civil war general who won the presidency in 1868 as a Republican |
| Wade-Davis Bill | a bill passed in 1864 and vetoed by President Lincoln that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction |
| Andrew Johnson | succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president, a former slave owner who supported abolition, wanted to deal harshly with the Confederate states and was impeached during his term as president |
| Thaddeus Stevens | radical Republican leader who hated slavery, and wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and to give full citizenship and the right to vote to African Americans |
| Reconstruction Act | Act passed by radicals and moderates which abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states, divided those states into five military distrcts, set up requirements for readmission to the Union |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | one of the congressional Republicans who after the Civil War, wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote |
| 14th Amendment | amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1868 that makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States- including former slaves- citizens of the country and guarentees equal protection of the laws |
| 15th Amendment | amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1870 that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they had previuosly been slaves |
