a law that enforced segregation in the Southern states.

a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.

the forced separation of people of different races in public places.

a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans.

an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept the Republican Rutherford B Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South.

the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the Southern states.

US Supreme court case that that established the doctrine of “Separate but Equal"

an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.

process by the legislature to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops

a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery.

a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.