Reconstruction Era

What right was given to African American men with the ratification of the 15th amendment?

• Freedom

• Citizenship

• Suffrage

• Religion

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What was one major cause of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?

• Congress did not want the Confederate states to be allowed back into the Union

• Johnson disagreed with Congress's plan for Reconstruction

• Abraham Lincoln distrusted Andrew Johnson

• Congress discovered Andrew Johnson had committed war crimes

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Reconstruction can be defined as the time period in which -

• Southern states became wealthy from building an economy based on industry

• The United States began rebuilding its navy after it was decimated during the Civil War

• The U.S. economy recovered from an economic recession following the War of 1812

• The Southern staes were brought back into the Union after the Civil War

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Were carpetbaggers (a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction Era) popular in the South?

• Yes

• No

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

This amendment is significant because it - 

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

• Prevented voting discrimination based on race

• Abolished slavery

• Gave African American women the right to vote

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Sharecropping

- Farmed other people's land

- Borrowed land owner's tools

- Shared the crop profit with landowner

This way of earning money for African Americans after the Civil War resulted in -

• African Americans living in near poverty

• African Americans thriving economically

• African Americans migrating to the West to farm their own land

• African Americans attending school to learn other skills

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The Freeman’s Bureau assisted freedmen during reconstruction by -

• Lobbying congress for the rights of African Americans

• Giving monthly stipends to freedmen who had families

• Providing schooling for freedmen

• Building affordable housing neighborhoods for freedmen

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The Transcontinental Railroad connected the west and east coast, was built by Chinese and Irish immigrants and ?

• New markets were made available to farmers and businesses

• Trade with Latin American countries increased

• Native Americans were welcomed as a part of American culture

• The stock market crashed due to people leaving their jobs to head west

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Hiram Rhodes Revels is significant to the Reconstruction Era because he - 

• Became the first freedmen to make a million dollars after he was emancipated

• Was the first African American governor of Alabama

• Became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate

• Brought awareness to the growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the South

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Black Codes resulted in -

• The freedoms of African Americans being limited

• African American voter participation increased

• African Americans played a larger role in the government

• African Americans were made slaves again

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