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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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| Emancipation proclamation |
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| the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union. |
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| rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group. |
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| the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature. |
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(in the ex-Confederate states)
any code of law that defined and especially limited therights of former slaves after the Civil War. |
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| to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office. |
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| a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction. |
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| 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69. |
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| to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. |
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[image]a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange. |
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