US Unit 5.2

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True/False: Republicans dominated southern politics during Reconstruction.

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True

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Lincoln looked to: reunify the country, punish the South, create military rule in the South, execute the leaders of the Confederacy

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reunify the country

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Federal agency set up to help former slaves and poor whites receive education, health care, food and clothing:

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Feedman's Bureau

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Constitutional amendment that made all the people born in the U.S. (including former slaves) citizens

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14th Amendment

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White southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction

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scalawag

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Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to participate in Reconstruction

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carpetbagger

Answer explanation

The term carpetbagger came from a type of cheap luggage that was made from carpet fabric.

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System in which landowners gave poor farmers seeds, tools, and land to cultivate in exchange for part of their harvest

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sharecropping

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During Reconstruction, which of the following did the Southern states enact in order to restrict the rights of the freedmen?

Options: Slave Codes, Civil Rights Laws, Freedman's Bureau Bill, Black Codes

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Black Codes

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In 1866, a group formed in the South to fight against the rising influence of African Americans in the South. Members of this group often turned to violence and intimidation. What was the name of this controversial group?

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Ku Klux Klan

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After abolishing slavery and creating a new definition of citizenship, Congress passed the 15th Amendment that gave ___________ rights to all men.

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Voting