Chapter 15 Quick Review

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Black Codes were created to

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Restrict the rights of newly freed Black people

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Legislation that separated the South into 5 military districts under direct Republican control.

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

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This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.

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15th Amendment

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The period after the Civil War of bringing the Confederate states back into the Union and dealing with the integration of former slaves into American society. It ended with the Compromise of 1877.

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Reconstruction

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Passed by a Republican Congress, it guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves.

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Adopted in 1868, guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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14th Amendment

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Adopted in 1865, it abolished slavery in the United States.

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13th Amendment

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Which one of these is NOT a success of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Built 40 Hospitals,
Built schools like Howard University,
Mediated disputes between former slaves and whites,
Passed the separate but equal law

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Passed the separate but equal law

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Why did sharecroppers remain in a state of slavery?

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They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt

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Laws that required the African-Americans be separated from white in public places are...

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Jim Crow Laws