They are more commonly known as the bill of rights.
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1. Assassination: The act of killing a prominent person, often a political leader
2. Impeachment: A charge of misconduct by a holder of a public office
3. Black Codes: laws passed by southern leaders, during the early part of reconstruction that discriminated..
4. Reconstruction: a process to rebuild and reintegrate the souther states and approx 4m newly freed blacks in the US
5. Segregation: The legal separation of black and white people in public spaces, railroad cars, restrooms, and more
6. Sharecropping: an agricultural system where a landowner allows a tenant to use their land in return for a share of crops grown on the land
7. Carpetbagger: a term used by southerners to refer to a northern who came south during reconstruction to make money
8. Scalawag: a term used by northerners to refer to a southerner who cooperated with northern authorities during reconstruction
9. Freedmen: Slaves freed after the Civil war
10. 13th amendment: took away the institution of slavery
11. 14th Amendment: gave equal citizenship to all Americans
12. 15th Amendment: Gave voting rights to all male citizens
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