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| a man who has been freed from slavery. |
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| an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education. |
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| the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War. |
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| to deprive of a franchise, privilege, or right. |
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| an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery. |
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| to render or declare legally void or inoperative |
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| an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction. |
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| any code of law that defined and especially limited therights of former slaves after the Civil War. |
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| an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. |
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| U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction. |
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| a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings. |
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| the right to vote, especially in a political election. |
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