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| Legally imposed restrictions of a person's civil rights, or libertys |
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| Non profit organizations designed to provide their members with financial and social benefits, often including medical aid, life insurance, funeral cost, and disaster relief. |
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| Legal government seizure of private property without compensation. |
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| The presidential act of blocking a congressionally passed law not by direct veto but by simply refusing to sign it at the end of a session's end or after. |
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| A system in which debators are held in servitude to labor for their creditors. |
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| An agricultural system in which a tenant recieves land, tools, and seed credit and pledges in return a share of the crop to the creditor. |
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| Derogatory term used for pro union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south in collusion with the republican governments after the civil war |
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| A Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments |
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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 President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. |
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| William Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and also served as Governor of New York and United States Senator. |
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