1. Thirteenth Amendment
13th

2. Ended/banned slavery

3. Fourteenth Amendment
14th

4. Citizenship to Blacks and full protection under the law (life, liberty & property).

5. Fifteenth Amendment
15th

6. Right to vote for all MALE citizens, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

7. Black Codes

8. laws created by Southern governments to limit the rights of former slaves

9. Segregation

10. It kept Blacks and Whites separate

11. Reconstruction

12. rebuilding the South and bringing the southern states back into the Union

13. Freedman’s Bureau

14. established by Congress to assist former slaves including food, medical care and education

15. Carpetbaggers

16. northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power

17. Civil Rights Act of 1866

18. granted full citizenship rights to freedmen, giving them the same rights as whites

19. Discrimination

20. treating someone unfairly because of their race, gender, religion, or place of birth

21. Robert E. Lee

22. Urged Southerners to reconcile at the end of the war and reunite as Americans President of Washington College

23. Abraham Lincoln

24. Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation (make-up/get back together)

25. Frederick Douglass

26. Wanted constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights