Texas Reconstruction

Texas Reconstruction

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Era of history following the Civil War during which the United States was rebuilt.

• Civil War era

• Revolutionary era

• Mexican National era

• Reconstruction era

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Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

• James Polk

• Andrew Johnson

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When the MILITARY is put in charge of enforcing the laws, usually in defeated territories or during a state of emergency.

• Confederacy

• Sharecropper

• Martial Law

• Abolitionist

• Blockade

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What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery
• Gave African American men the right to vote
• defined national citizenship and forbade the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
• made it illegal for any state to secede

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What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery would be abolished
• The rights of the freed people would be protected
• African American could vote
• Women could vote

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What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery is abolished
• Freed African Americans' rights are protected
• African American men can vote
• Women can vote

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A farmer who rents someone else’s land and pays in cash or crops

• Tenant Farmer

• Unionist

• Sharecropper

• Scalawag

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After the Civil War, the slaves had been freed and many of the large plantations were destroyed. Many of the freedmen that had worked on the plantations were now out of work. Many turned to sharecropping. Which of the following BEST describes sharecropping? 

• Sharecroppers had to share the equipment used on the farms
• Sharecroppers had little money so they had to buy small plots of land
• Sharecroppers had to share their crops with other sharecroppers
• Sharecroppers had to give farm owners part of their crop for using the land

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Worked to educate African Americans and register them to vote.

• Freedman's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Sharecroppers

• Carpetbaggers

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Emancipation means...

• to enslave

• to move

• to free

• to become angry

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What does Juneteenth commemorate?

• The end of slavery in Texas
• The beginning of summer in Texas
• The beginning of Reconstruction in Texas
• The end of the Civil War in Texas

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Jim Crow laws were passed for the following reason?

• To make it easy for former slaves to vote.

• To make it almost impossible for former slaves to vote.

• To allow all former states of the Union to vote.

• To keep all people from being able to vote.

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The white terrorist group that attacked Blacks and white republicans to restore Democratic control in the South was the--

• Kappa Kappa Kappa
• Redeemers
• Pure Race Fraternity 
• Ku Klux Klan