Reconstruction (1.2)

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What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments have in common?

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They were intended to correct the injustices created by slavery.

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What was the major purpose of the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the South in the late 1870s? Options: to encourage freed slaves to integrate into Southern society, to protect freed slaves against racial intimidation and prejudice, to prevent contact between white people and African Americans as equals, to frighten recently freed slaves so they would resettle in the North and West

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to prevent contact between white people and African Americans as equals

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which option could be associated with "The Nadir of American Race Relations"? Options: Ratification of the 15th Amendment, Ratification of Jim Crow laws, Establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, Establishment of the Republican Party

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Ratification of Jim Crow laws

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What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage/sharecropping that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

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African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.

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Following the Civil War, why did many southern states enact Black Codes?

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to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons

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The excerpt below addresses slavery in the United States.
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.
From which of the following is this excerpt taken? Options: the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, the Missouri Compromise, the 13th Amendment

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the 13th Amendment

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What did the 14th and 15th Amendments, which were passed during Reconstruction, result in? Options: additional rights for southern segregationists, increased individual rights for African Americans, equal rights for women in the United States, expanded rights for Native Americans on reservations

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increased individual rights for African Americans

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According to the chart above, the agricultural South was at a disadvantage against the

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Industrialized North

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In what system did a landowner lend materials to a person who would plant crops and then pay back the landowner with a portion of the crops harvested?

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Sharecropping

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What was an important negative effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage on African Americans during Reconstruction?

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Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.