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* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | * 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | ||
* black codes | * black codes | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"bloody shirt"|from the apocryphal (likely but not true) story of Rep. Benj. Butler in 1871 holding up a blood-stained shirt on the floor of the House of Representatives, which was supposedly from a carpetbagger who had been whipped by the KKK; Butler's speech was condemned by southerners who mocked the speech for having "waved the bloodys shirt" in a pathetic appeal; the term was used subsequently to accuse Republicans of trying to gain sympathy for their stances on the Civil War and Reconstruction, as well as later policies}}</ul></li> | |||
* Compromise of 1877 | * Compromise of 1877 | ||
* 40 acres and a mule | * 40 acres and a mule |