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how did the federal government try to protect the rights of african americans during congressional reconstruction?

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The Reconstruction Acts established military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed. The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote. It instituted black codes and Jim Crow laws in all southern states.
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