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a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

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an established or official way of doing something.

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Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system.

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Plessy v. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States

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Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public

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was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote

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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.

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The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States

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Hiram Rhodes Revels was a U.S. Senator, 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

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The right to vote for African Americans

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Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body formally levels charges against a high official of government. Impeachment does not necessarily mean removal from office; it is only a formal statement of charges, akin to an indictment in criminal law, and is thus only the first step towards removal.

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The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote.

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Fearing the Civil Rights Act might be overturned the Republicans Proposed the 14th Amendment

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9,1866, was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.

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The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877

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The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

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Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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an agency providing relief not only for freedpeople and certain poor people but white refuges as well.

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This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the united states

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it offered the southerners amnesty or official pardon for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion

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Reconstruction, the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union.