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The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.

• Reconstruction

• Freedmens Bureau

• Compromise of 1877

• 10% Plan

Offered the southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.

• Ten Percent Plan

• Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Acts

• Compromise of 1877

This made slavery illegal throughout the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act

Provided relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.

• Freedmens Bureau

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Act

• Jim Crow Laws

Laws that generally limited the freedom of African Americans.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction Acts

• Black Codes

Granted citizenship to the former slaves.

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Divided the south into 5 districts.

• Reconstruction Acts

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Segregation

• Compromise of 1877

Process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.

• Impeachment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

Gave African American men the right to vote.

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866