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Civil Rights Acts
Congress worried the courts might overturn the Civil Rights Act, and proposed another amendment to the Constitution. The states ratified the amendment. The Fourteeth Amendment said that
'All persons born or nuturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." -
Black Codes
Black Codes were made to help control new freed African Americans, and some black codes made it illegal for African Americans to own or rent farms, and made it easy for white employers to take advantage of African American workers. -
CIvil Rights Act of 1866
To combat the black codes , Radical Republicans pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through Congress. This law gave the federal government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African American's rights, It aldo grantede citizenship to African Americans. -
Reconstruction Act
By 1867, 10 of the former Confederate states hadn't ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. In respones, Congress passed the First Rerconstuction Act. This law requthat rhose states form new gocernments. A Second Reconstruction Act empowered the army to register Coters in each district and to help organize state constitutional convertions. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
Congtess took one more major step in Reconstruction when it proposed the Fiffeenth Amendmend. This amendment granteed that states and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to andy male citizen necause of "race, color, or peveious condition of servitude.
