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6 Cards in this Set
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Hiram Revels
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the first African American in the U.S. Senate
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Ku Klux Klan
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a secret society that opposed civil rights and used violence and terror against African Americans
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Compromise of 1877
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agreement in which Democrats would accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president if all federal troops were removed from the South
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poll tax
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a special tax people had to pay before they could vote; it was used to try to keep African Americans from voting
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segregation
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the forced separation of blacks and whites in public places
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Jim Crow laws
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laws that enforced segregation
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