STAAR Questions: Reconstruction.

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Which era in U.S. history is the focus of an article divided into topics for a history website? Options: The Jacksonian era, The antebellum era, The Federalist era, The Reconstruction era.

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The Reconstruction era.

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What is the historical significance of this act below?

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It was the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities.

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The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to?

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serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.

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After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to?

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limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

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Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.

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This list below describes conditions found in —

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southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction.

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Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt below in order to —
Options: limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments., increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North., decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress., improve relations with the Democratic Party.

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limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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What was one effect of the Dawes Act?

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harmed the communal structure of American Indian society.

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Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment? Options: The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act., The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform., The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War., The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War.

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Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
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- African American families divided by slavery were reunited.
- Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.
- African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.
- Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.

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African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.