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- 3. A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave
- 6. A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
- 8. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
- 11. (especially in the US) A charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
- 12. (First word) means forgiveness for past offenses. This (Second word) allowed for most former Confederates to vote once again
- 14. A political battle between former general Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour
- 15. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
- 17. Divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general supported by federal troops.
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- 1. A compromise that farmers who couldn't afford their whole farm could rent out small portions of their land, those renting would pay with the amount gained from their crops
- 2. An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
- 4. These three laws made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics
- 5. A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
- 7. The period of time after the civil war in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
- 9. Laws passed in 1865 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
- 10. Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
- 13. A change in the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
- 16. A sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.