the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct

the schools for black students and the school for white students shall be conducted separately

a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854

He was Lincolns Assassin?

refers to the economic shift from an exclusively agrarian society to one that embraced industrial development

a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit

The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white people.

required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union

He was the legislature who escaped slavery by commandeering a confederate ship

dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction

All marriages of white person with black persons, Mulatto, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the state of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.

fed millions of people, built hospitals and provided medical aid, negotiated labor contracts for ex-slaves and settled labor disputes.

He was the first to stand up to segregation in public transportation?

a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain

the act of an authority by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals

it shall be unlawful for any parent or relative to hold custody of any white child to give a black parent custody of the child

declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens

He passed the Black Codes?

a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work

an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session

the warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the black convicts

granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

Who believed colored people were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as Caucasians?

a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors