Reconstruction Era

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This amendment abolished slavery

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13th Amendment

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This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

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establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

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After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

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limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

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The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -

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serve as a member of the U.S. Senate

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Southern states passed the Black Codes described in this excerpt in order to -

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limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

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Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses: The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

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Fifteenth Amendment

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The Homestead Act attempted to promote development of western lands by

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providing free land to settlers

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What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation? Options: Homestead Act, Morril Act, Dawes Act, Reconstruction Act

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Dawes Act

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This group opposed Lincoln's plan for reconstruction and felt the south should be punished.

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Radical Republicans