Reconstruction

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This is the name of the period of time that followed the end of the Civil War.

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Reconstruction Era

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This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves. It built thousands of schools.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew, this was known as _____________

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sharecropping

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This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the whole country.

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13th Amendment

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The ____________ Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This meant that all African Americans that were enslaved were now American citizens.

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14th

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The ______________ Amendment gave all African American MEN the right to vote. It was illegal to deny African American men the right to vote.

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15th

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According to this amendment no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

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14th Amendment

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The Freedmen's Bureau provided housing, medical, and education to what group of people?

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Both poor white Southerners and former enslaved Africans

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Sharecropping was like a new form of slavery, because farmers were always ________________.

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in debt to the landowners

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The election of 1876 ended reconstruction because

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The United States pulled their troops out of the South