Civil War and Reconstruction

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Issues that divided the United States in the 1850's were ____.

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Slavery and States' Rights

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Which Civil War battle was significant in that the Union army was able to halt Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north? 50,000 casualties. Options: Gettysburg, Antietam, Chickamauga, Atlanta

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Gettysburg

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When the Civil War ended, who was the main General of Confederate Forces?

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Robert E. Lee

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When the Civil War ended, who was the main General of Union Forces?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Who assisted freed slaves with education, jobs and housing?

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

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limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

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After the Civil War, which development limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South?

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use of the sharecropping system

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President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included

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reuniting the nation as quickly as possible

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After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to

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provide a labor supply to plantation owners

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Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to

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enforce racial segregation