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-Legislation passed by Congress that nullified the black codes and affirmed that black Americans should have equal benefit of the law.This expansion of black rights and federal authority drew a veto from President Johnson,which Congress later overrode.
A)black codes
B)carpetbagger
C)Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)Compromise of 1877
E)Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 nullified the black codes and affirmed that black Americans should have equal benefit of the law. It was vetoed by President Johnson, but later overrode by Congress.

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