Here are the phrases matched to show the cause-effect relationships during Reconstruction:
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Republicans proposed the 14th Amendment because it gave African Americans rights that were denied by states' black codes.
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President Johnson stated that he vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill because Congress did not yet have the representatives from all the former Confederate States.
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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act because it did not prevent the South from treating freedpeople unfairly.
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One reason that the Republican Congress disapproved of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was because they feared that once Southern representatives were in Congress they would overturn the Civil Rights Act.