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Countless carpetbaggers (northerners who moved to the South after the war) and scalawags (white Unionists and Republicans in the South) flocked to the South during Reconstruction and exerted significant influence there. Although in many respects they achieved their goals of modernizing and Republicanizing the South, they eventually were driven out by Democratic state politicians in the mid-1870s.
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abolished slavery
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Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts
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Right to vote extended to all males.
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Voting Rights reinstated to Southern White landowners
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Caused by nation wide financial panic
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The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations"
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Last of Union Troops withdraw from the South.
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Given by Booker T. Washington
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Declared 'Seperate but Equal' to be constitutional
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Opposed racial segregation
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