| Question | Answer |
| Black Codes | Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen |
| Radical republicans | Vowed to take control of Reconstruction |
| Fourteenth Amendment | It defined citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States |
| Radical Reconstruction | When Congress overrided a veto |
| Reconstruction Act | It threw out the state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th amendment-all the former Confederate states except Tennessee |
| Impeach | To bring formal charges against |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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