The Civil War and Reconstruction

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What were the main causes of the Civil War?

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Slavery, states' rights, and territorial claims

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Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States? Options: 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 16th Amendment

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13th Amendment

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Which movement aimed to end slavery in the United States? A) Abolitionist movement, B) Suffrage movement, C) Temperance movement, D) Labor movement

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Abolitionist movement

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What were the Black Codes?

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Laws that restricted the rights of freed slaves

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What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?

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It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

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What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

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To assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South

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Which amendment granted African American men the right to vote?

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15th Amendment

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What was sharecropping?

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A system where freed slaves worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops

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What were the Jim Crow laws?

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Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South

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What was the significance of the Compromise of 1877?

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It ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South