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Fifteenth Amendment
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constitutional amendment that stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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Panic of 1873
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financial panic in which banks closed and the stock market crashed
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Compromise of 1877
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agreement that decided the 1876 presidential election
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stock market
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place where shares of ownership in companies are bought and sold
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depression
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time of low business activity and high unemployment
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compromise
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settlement of differences in which each side gives up something it wants
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Ulysses S. Grant
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former Union general
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electoral votes
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votes made by the members of the Electoral College, which elects the president and the vice president
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amendment
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formal alteration or addition to the U.S. Constitution
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