Unit 3 SS Post Review

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State another name for the North and South.

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Union and Confederacy

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What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Back

A government agency to help former slaves protect newly granted rights.

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What were the Jim Crow laws and Black Codes in the South designed to do?

Back

Limit the granted rights of African Americans

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Focusing on the principles of equality and justice, what founding document of the U.S. is most closely aligned with those principles?

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The Declaration of Independence

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How did the Reconstruction Amendments attempt to change equality in the U.S.?

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By abolishing slavery and granting citizenship/equality and voting rights

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How did the Compromise of 1877 have an impact on the rights of African Americans?

Back

Led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, and a loss of African Americans rights.

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare (say)?

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It declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free

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13th Amendment

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Abolish Slavery

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14th Amendment

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Grant Citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the US

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15th Amendment

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Grant African Americans the right to vote