8. Compromise of 1877: * 2 points granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War discriminatory method of preventing African Americans from voting by requiring passage of a reading test in order to vote first significant law restricting immigration into the United States; banned Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for 10 years abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime settled the disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of the South, and ended Reconstruction law that accelerated westward expansion by allowing any citizen to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land established by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved persons by providing food, housing and medical aid, establishing schools and offering legal assistance state and local laws that legalized racial segregation in public settings guaranteed African-American men the right to vote law that distributed reservation land among individual Native Americans and required assimilation to become U.S. citizens system where a landlord/planter allows a tenant to use farmland in exchange for a share of the crop; referred to as "slavery in disguise" discriminatory method of preventing African Americans from voting by requiring payment in order to vote white supremacist group that terrorized African Americans and Republican allies by beating and murdering freedmen and intimidating voters Supreme Court ruling that said segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; "separate but equal" was constitutional restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished

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