Reconstruction

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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.

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13th Amendment

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What amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens and ensures due process and equal protection under the law? Options: 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 16th Amendment, 13th Amendment

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14th Amendment

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These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners.

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Black Codes

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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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After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south.

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he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south

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Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called

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Jim Crow Laws

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What was the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson?

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Segregation was legal in the U.S.

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Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited.
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.

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African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.

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What do the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 have in common?

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They were ways Congress sought to guarantee blacks the full rights of citizenship.

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Which term refers to the post-Civil War agriculture system where a property owner supplied acreage, tools, and seed to a landless farmer, who then gave the owner a percentage of all he grew?

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sharecropping