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Black Codes
Laws made to help control any african americans in america at the time. Some laws made a former slave buying or renting a farm against the law. They also made it easy for whites to take advantage of african americans that were working for them. The black codes made it so that officials code fine or even arrest african americans who did not have jobs. -
Freedmen's Bureau's New Powers
Congress passed a bill in 1866 that gave the Freedmen's Bureau more power. It made it so the Freedmen's Bureau could have special trials where freed slaves could serve on juries against white southerners who broke laws to protect the freed slaves. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act gave power to the federal government to protect freed slaves and get involved in state affairs. This Act also gave the African Americans Citizenship. -
The First Reconstruction Act
10 of the former confederate states had not accepted the 14th amendment so congress passed the first reconstruction act. This act stated that those ten states would have to form new governments. The act also diveded the 10 states into five military groups, that would be controlled by an army general. This would only go on until the new governments were formed. -
The Second Reconstrution Act
Gave the army the power to register voters in each district and to help control state constitutional conventions. -
14th Amendment
This ammendment stated that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." -
15th Amendment
This Amendment declared that any male american citizen could could vote no matter their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."