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Southern states passed Black Codes to restrict freedoms. Sharecropping trapped many Black families and poor whites in debt. Violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Black voters.

Reunite the nation and define freedom for 4 million newly freed African Americans. american history beginnings to 1877 myworld interactive

Declared the Western Hemisphere closed to future European colonization—a bold statement of U.S. influence. Southern states passed Black Codes to restrict freedoms

President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory (1803) from France for $15 million, doubling U.S. size. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore it to the Pacific. american history beginnings to 1877 myworld interactive

The first national government was weak—no president, no courts, no power to tax or raise an army. Shays’ Rebellion (1786) —an uprising of indebted farmers in Massachusetts—showed the Articles were failing.