5A Reconstruction

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What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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To assist formerly enslaved people in transitioning to an independent life.

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What were the Black Codes?

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Laws enacted to control and limit the freedom of African Americans.

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Who were the Radical Republicans?

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A faction within the Republican Party that advocated for civil rights and equality for African Americans

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What was the goal of Congressional Reconstruction? Options: To divide the South into military districts and enforce racial segregation, To address civil rights issues and integrate newly freed slaves into society, To hinder the full freedom and equality of newly emancipated individuals, To maintain the social and economic structure of the South

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To address civil rights issues and integrate newly freed slaves into society

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What did the 14th Amendment address? Options: The right to vote for African American men, Citizenship rights and equal protection under the law, The right to own property for African Americans, The right to education for African American children

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Citizenship rights and equal protection under the law

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What did the 15th Amendment guarantee? Options: The right to education for African American children, Equal protection under the law for all citizens, The right to vote for African American men, The right to own property for African Americans

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The right to vote for African American men

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What was the Compromise of 1877?

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A political agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876 that ended Reconstruction.

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What were Jim Crow laws?

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Racially discriminatory laws and practices that enforced racial segregation

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What was sharecropping?

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A system where landless farmers worked on someone else's land and gave a portion of the crops as rent.

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What is segregation?

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The enforced separation of different racial or ethnic groups.