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| amendment | addition to a bill, law, or constitution |
| constitution | document in which the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government are established |
| slavery | forced labor of other people - being held as the property of somebody else |
| citizen | person who owes loyalty to a particular nation and is entitled to all its rights and protections |
| servitude | position of someone who is a slave or someone who is completely controlled by another person |
| reconstruction | something that has been put back together |
| enforcement | to make people obey a law |
| freedman | men and women who were legally freed from slavery after the Civil War |
| carpetbaggers | mean nickname for a northern white who went to the South after the Civil War to start a business or pursue a political career |
| Black Codes | southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War |
| compromise | agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants to end a disagreement |
| Jim Crow | the practice of discriminating against black people |
| reconciliation | the ending of conflict or renewing of a relationship |
| preservation | the maintenance of something |
| human rights | the rights that are considered by most societies to belong automatically to everyone |
| civil liberties | the basic rights guaranteed to individual citizens by law |
