Reconstruction Review

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Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

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make it more difficult for African Americans to vote

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What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

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To grant basic rights to formerly enslaved persons.

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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 slaves

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Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

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13th amendment to the Constitution

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Which statement best describes how the status of African Americans in the South changed after the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

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African Americans faced increasing discrimination and segregation.

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After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to

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maintain a cheap labor supply

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The end of Reconstruction in 1877 led to widespread racial segregation in the South primarily because

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of the passage of Jim Crow laws

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Which Reconstruction Plan was lenient towards the South and allowed for the creation of black codes?

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Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

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Which Reconstruction Plan divided the South into 5 military districts?

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The Radical Reconstruction Plan

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What famous Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal?

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Plessy v. Ferguson