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What were Abe Lincoln's feelings about the Confederate States of America?

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He didn't think it existed because secession was illegal

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What group in Congress did President Andrew Johnson not get along with?

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Radical Republicans, radical republicans, republicans

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The time we call "Reconstruction" ended under which president?

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Which of these actions effectively put an end to the Reconstruction Era?

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Removal of Federal Troops from southern states

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This law, passed by congress, gave land away to people who would move west and settle.

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Homestead Act

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What made the biggest impact on the westward migration of people in the United States after the Civil War?

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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad allowed more people and goods to move westward.

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This government agency was created to help freed slaves after the war.

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Freedman's Bureau

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Upon being freed, many slaves stay near their plantations and continued to farm. This is the only life they had ever known. They would rent land and tools from plantation owners, and in return give them part of their harvest. This process is called...

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sharecropping

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Which action led to southern confederates retaking control of state governments and instituting Jim Crow laws?

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Removal of federal troops from southern states

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This court case led to the acceptance of the "separate but equal" policy?

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Plessy v. Ferguson