Reconstruction Era

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This amendment abolished slavery

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13th Amendment

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This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

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14th Amendment

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This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

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establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

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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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After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

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limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

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The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -

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Protect the voting rights of African American men

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What prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

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The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

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What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

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Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

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The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

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Thirteenth Amendment