The Reconstruction Era and the Growth of Big Business

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What did the 13th Amendment change in our country?

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It ended slavery.

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What did the 14th Amendment change in our country?

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It gave African Americans citizenship.

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What right was granted to African Americans with the passage of the 15th Amendment? Options: Citizenship, the Right to Vote, Freedom from Slavery, Equality

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the Right to Vote

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What kind of test hurt African American voting by requiring voters that had not attended school past 5^th grade to pass it in order to be eligible to vote?

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a Literacy Test

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What laws established segregation in the South after the Civil War and led Homer Plessy to try to test the law on a “whites only” Louisiana rail car?

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Jim Crow Laws

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What Supreme Court Case in 1896 established the “separate but equal” doctrine whereby public facilities would be segregated (“white only” and “colored only”)?

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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What 1954 Court Case finally established racial integration once again in American schools, hospitals, and other locations?

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Brown V. Board of Education

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What was the common occupation of Americans in the early 1800s?

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Farmers

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Where did most people buy all of their products from back in the early 1800s?

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From the people in their town

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What transportation advancement connected American businesses and people like never before in the 1800s? Options: Cars, Airplanes, Trains, Electric Traincars

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Trains