Unit 9 Vocab

1. a system that keeps different groups separate from each other, normally through social pressures and/or laws
6. the period of rebuilding social, economic, and political systems after the Civil War
9. a white southerner who collaborated with northern republicans during reconstruction often for personal profit
10. a law passed in 1867 that limited the power of the president to remove certain federal officials
15. a term in the 14th amendment requiring that states guarantee the same rights privileges, and protections to all people
19. defined us citizen, which receives due process and equal protection under the law
20. the right to vote
21. abolished slavery

2. rising to an important position
3. the rights of all people to social, economic and political freedom and equality
4. the right of a citizen to be treated fairly by the government when laws are made and enforced
5. a republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the Civil War
7. a system of beliefs and practices in which white people are considered to be superior to people of other racial backgrounds that is maintained through discrimination
8. laws that enforced racial segregation in the untied states from the post civil war era until the 1960
11. a person from the northern states who went to the south after the civil war to profit from the reconstruction
12. to reject; to refuse a law made by legislature
13. agreement between southern democrats and the republicans to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era
14. murder, usually a secret attack for political reasons
16. a fixed sum tax levied o all persons
17. the status of being a legal citizen of a country and entitled to certain rights
18. a proposal by president abraham lincoln to readmit confederate states to the union the plan was based on the idea that 10% of a 1860 voters must swear loyalty to the union
19. males could vote regardless of color