Civil Rights Act of 1875 - A bill that forbade racial discrimination in all public places. The act was the Radical Republicans’ last legislative effort to protect the civil liberties of former slaves., Civil Rights Cases of 1883 - A series of Supreme Court cases that countered Radical Republican legislation passed during Reconstruction and severely restricted blacks’ civil liberties., Compromise of 1877 - A political agreement that made Rutherford B. Hayes president (rather than Samuel J. Tilden) in exchange for a complete withdrawal of federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction. When neither Hayes nor Tilden won enough electoral votes to become president, the election fell into dispute, and Congress passed the Electoral Count Act to recount popular votes in three contested states., Sharecropping - An agricultural production system in the South through which wealthy landowners leased individual plots of land on plantations to white and black Sharecroppers in exchange for a percentage of the yearly yield of crops., Thirteenth Amendment - A constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, that abolished slavery in the United States. Southern states were required to acknowledge and ratify the amendment before they were readmitted to the Union., Fifteenth Amendment  - A constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that gave all American men the right to vote, regardless of race or wealth. The amendment enfranchised blacks and poor landless whites who had never been able to vote., First Reconstruction Act  - A bill, passed by Radical Republicans in Congress in 1867, that treated Southern states as divided territories. Sometimes called the Military Reconstruction Act or the Reconstruction Act, the First Reconstruction Act divided the South into five districts, each governed by martial law., Fourteenth Amendment - A constitutional amendment, drafted by Radical Republicans in 1866 and ratified in 1868, that ensured that the liberties guaranteed to blacks in the Civil Rights Act Of 1866 could not be taken away., Freedmen's Bureau - A government agency established by Congress in 1865 to distribute food, supplies, and confiscated land to former slaves., Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - A secret society formed in Tennessee in 1866 to terrorize blacks.,

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