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Black Codes
These laws were made to help control the freed African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This law gave the federal branch of the government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African American's rights. -
Reconstruction Acts
The First Reconstruction Act divided 10 of the former Confederate states into five military districts which each would be governed by an army general until new state governments were made.
The Second Reconstruction Act empowered the army to register voters in each district and to help organize state constitutional conventions. -
14th Ammendment
It made sure citizenship couldn't later be taken away by passing another law. -
The Fifteenth Ammendment
It made sure that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
