Reconstruction Era

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Constitutional Amendment is a change to the American Constitution and requires...

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2/3 vote in Congress and 3/4 of states to approve (or ratify) the change

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This amendment ended slavery in the United States.

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13th

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Money required of voters in some Southern states - disproportionately applied to black voters, which could prohibit their ability to vote

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Poll Tax

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Most newly freed African American voters supported the Republican Party

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True

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Europeans Discover a New World

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Exploration Era

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A (sometimes tricky) reading exam formerly used in the South to keep African Americans from voting

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Literacy Test

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Lincoln gave a speech titled the ____ that encouraged soldiers to continue to fight to preserve our nation from splitting into two.

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Gettysburg Address

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What was the Reconstruction Era?

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Getting the Confederate States back to the Union.

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What are Jim Crow Laws?

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State laws passed throughout the South to enforce segregation of public facilities.

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What are Presidents Johnson and Lincoln trying to do in this cartoon?

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Bring the Union back together