Reconstruction Era

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Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

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limit African Americans rights

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Which event officially brought Reconstruction to an end?

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Federal Troops were removed from the South

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What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act?

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To oversee and enforce Congressional Reconstruction Legislation

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A farming system that took advantage of uneducated former slaves to keep them poor.

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sharecropping

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The agreement that allowed President Hayes to become president and withdrew the military.

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Compromise of 1877

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The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

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Freedman's Bureau

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Reconstruction was the process of

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rebuilding the South after the Civil War

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Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

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Carpetbaggers

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What organization was designed to intimidate former slaves and anyone who supported former slaves?

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Ku Klux Klan

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What was the main purpose of the 13th Amendment?

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Abolished slavery