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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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another name for laws passed in the South that limited the rights of Freedmen (curfews, wage limits, segregated spaces, etc.)
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the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery
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the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that protects birthright citizenship
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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, gender, or religion.
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a person freed from enslavement
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a system of agriculture in which landowners entrapped tenant farmers, many of whom were former slaves or their descendents, to rent farmland in exchange for a share of the crop grown
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a secret organization of conservative, racist, white Southerners who organized to intimidate and terrorize blacks and other minorities
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17th President of the U.S., he assumed this role after the assassination of Lincoln, serving 1865-1869
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18th President of the U.S., elected in 1868, who campaigned on his Civil War military leadership as the commanding general of all Union forces
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an insulting name for any Northerner who came to the South to profit from the chaos after the end of the Civil War
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rule by the military, imposed on citizens in place of civil law and government; this type of law suspends democratic rights like voting and trial by jury
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any Southerner who sided with the North and the soldiers who occupied the South and profited from Reconstruction
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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 (excluding most black Americans)
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an unconstitutional rule for voting where trick tests were given that were designed to allow any test-giver the ability to deny the test-taker the right to vote
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an unconstitutional rule for voting that required the voter to pay a tax to register to vote; “Compromise of ____”
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an informal agreement that settled the disputed 1876 presidential election and ended Reconstruction in the South
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the extrajudicial killing of individuals, often by hanging, typically carried out by mobs, and used to instill subservience and fear in black Americans
