Reconstruction Era

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This amendment abolished slavery

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13th Amendment

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This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

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14th 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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Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited,
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land,
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election,
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

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African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

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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 Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -

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Protect the voting rights of African American men

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Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment? The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party Platform, The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War, The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

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What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

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Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

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The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

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Thirteenth Amendment