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- 1. the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics
- 5. period in American history following the American Civil War
- 6. the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
- 11. former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.
- 13. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States
- 14. an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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- 2. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens
- 3. informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
- 4. an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
- 7. protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin.
- 8. opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
- 9. The presidential election of 1876 led to the end of Reconstruction.
- 10. local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- 12. an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.