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laws passed in the South that discriminated against Freedmen, including laws on curfews, laws regulating work and pay, and other restrictions placed on the freedoms of African Americans
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number of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery
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number of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that protects the right of citizenship for all people born in the United States
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number of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that stops the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous status as a slave
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unfairly treating a person or groups of people differently from other people based on characteristics such as race, age or gender
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a person freed from enslavement
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the period after the Civil War from 1865- 1876 when southern states were brought back into the Union
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a system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant farmer to use land in exchange for a share of the crop
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the abbreviation of the name of the secret organization (of conservative, racist whites) used to intimidate and terrorize Blacks and other minorities
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the last name of the 17th President of the U.S., he assumed this role after the assassination of Lincoln, serving 1865-1869
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the last name of the 18th President of the U.S. elected in 1868, he campaigned on his Civil War experience as commanding general of the Union forces
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name for any Northerner who came South to profit from the chaos and confusion after the end of the Civil War. These people were generally disliked throughout the South.
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military rule imposed on citizens instead civil law and government. This type of law suspends rights like voting and trial by jury.
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the name for a Southerner who sided with the Northerners and the soldiers who occupied the South and profited from Reconstruction. Other Southerners saw these people as "traitors"
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an unconstitutional rule for voting in many Southern states that said that you could vote ONLY IF your Grandfather had been able to vote. This was one way of excluding Freedmen from voting
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an unconstitutional rule for voting that was a test to prove someone could read and write before they were allowed to register to vote. These tests were designed to allow any test-giver to deny the test-taker the right to vote, and were used to discrimina
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the year in which an informal agreement that settled the disputed 1876 presidential election and ended Reconstruction in the South
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another unconstitutional rule for voting that required the voter to pay a tax to register to vote. These were made illegal later in US history by the 24th Amendment
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the extrajudicial killing of individuals, often by hanging, typically carried out by mobs. Used to instill fear in African American communities
