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| 384635977 | Thirteenth Amendment | The amendment that freed the slaves. | 0 | |
| 384635978 | Fourteenth Amendment | The amendment that gave blacks rights as citizens. | 1 | |
| 384635979 | Fifteenth Amendment | The amendment that granted suffrage to African-Americans. | 2 | |
| 384635980 | The Union League | The main political machine for blacks, educating blacks in their civic duties and campaigning for Republican candidates in the years following the Civil war. (Eventually expanded to build black churches and schools, represent black grievances before local employers and government, and recruiting militias to protect black communities from white retaliation. | 3 | |
| 384635981 | Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | 10% of the voters in any given Southern state in the election of 1860 must take an oath of allegiance to the US and pledge to abide by emancipation. | 4 | |
| 384635982 | Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 | A bill forced through Congress by the Republicans requiring, for the readmission of a state to the Union, 50% of a state's voters to take the oath, and demanding better, stronger safeguards for emancipation than Lincoln's pledge. Lincoln refused to sign this bill. | 5 | |
| 384635983 | Freedmen's Bureau | Intended to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to both freedmen and white refugees; Johnson repeatedly attempted to kill it and it expired in 1872. | 6 | |
| 384635984 | 3/5 | The fraction of a person that African-Americans had previously counted for. | 7 | |
| 384635985 | Charles Sumner | Led the Senate radicals and worked continually for racial equality as well as black freedom. | 8 | |
| 384635986 | Thaddeus Stevens | The most powerful radical in the House; had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and insisted on burial in a black cemetery. | 9 | |
| 384635987 | Civil Rights Bill of 1866 | Made blacks American citizens and struck at the Black codes. While initially vetoed by Johnson, Congress overturned the veto a month later. | 10 | |
| 384635988 | The Black Codes | Sought to minimize the effects of emancipation. While freedom was legally recognized and some privileges such as marriage granted, these codes ensured that freedom brought virtually no changes to the average black's lifestyle. Notable is the sharecropping system established by these codes. | 11 | |
| 384635989 | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Divided the South into five military districts and temporarily disfranchised tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers. Required seceded states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and to guarantee in the state constitutions full suffrage for adult black males. | 12 | |
| 384635990 | The Ku Klux Klan | Founded in Tennessee in 1866, this group is the most notorious of many anti-black "secret" organizations. | 13 | |
| 384635991 | Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 | Helped federal troops to eliminate most of the KKK and similar organizations. | 14 |
