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Pocket veto: A (de facto) veto of a bill by the US President by restricting Congressional action on the bill, as, figuratively, by carrying the bill in his pocket until the deadline for signing it has passed.

13,13,15 amendments: The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United State

Scalawag: Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.

Freedmans bureau: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau,[1] was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the United States, though by

Compromise of 1877: The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republ

Sharecrop: To participate in a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a share (part) of the crop raised on that land.

Black codes: any code of law that defined and especially limited therights of former slaves after the Civil War.

Carpetbaggers: Plural form of carpetbagger.

Civil rights bill 1866: The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27-30, enacted April 9, 1866, is a United States federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War. This legislation was enacted by Congress

Ku klux klan: 1.
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

Hayes: Any of a number of places, outside Britain named for persons with the surname.

Thaddeus Stevens: 1. Thaddeus (ˈθædɪəs). 1792--1868, US Radical Republican politician. An opponent of slavery, he supported Reconstruction and entered the resolution calling for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Helen hunt Jackson: Helen Hunt ( Helen Maria Fiske ) 1830–85, U.S. novelist and poet.

Polygamy: The having of a plurality of socially bonded sexual partners at the same time

Mormons: the popular name given to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Transcontinental RR: The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,907-mile (3,069 km) contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacif