RECONSTRUCTION

RECONSTRUCTION ERA

A government agency dedicated to providing critical services such as education, housing, and social services to formerly enslaved people.

​Freedmen's Bureau

The Reconstruction Era

​follows the Civil War when Southern states and formerly enslaved people were intergrated back in the society.

Reconstruction

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​Allowed racial segregation. "Separate but equal".

Plessy v. Ferguson

​Laws that restricted black people's rights to own property. conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

​​Black Codes

​White supremacy group that used violence and terror to prevent African Americans from voting and more.

​​Ku Klux Klan

​Abolished Slavery

​​13th Amendement

​Granted citizenship and equal protection to all individuals born in the U.S.

​14th Amendment

​Granted voting rights to African Americans

​15th Amendment

1st African American to serve as a member on the Texas Legislature.

​George T. Ruby

​1st African American to serve as a member on the Texas Legislature.

Matthew Gaines