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  1. 2. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.
  2. 4. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  3. 10. an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
  4. 11. Radicals led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation. After unsuccessful measures in 1866 resulted in violence against former slaves in the rebel states, Radicals pushed the Fourteenth Amendment for statutory protections through Congress
  5. 13. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
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  1. 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
  2. 3. (in the US) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
  3. 5. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,
  4. 6. provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  5. 7. Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements.
  6. 8. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
  7. 9. Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
  8. 12. The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.