PRE Assessment on Reconstruction

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After the Civil War, the most common occupations for freedmen were: sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

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sharecroppers and tenant farmers

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Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

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Elements of Reconstruction

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The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the removal of federal troops from Southern states.

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removal of federal troops from Southern states

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Which statement is a valid generalization or claim about the experience of African Americans during the early Reconstruction period (1865–1870)? Options: (1) They gained economic equality. (2) Their participation in government decreased. (3) They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments. (4) Their political equality was opposed by most Radical Republicans.

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They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments.

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What was one result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

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The “separate but equal” doctrine was established.

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What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution? (1) punishing the South for seceding from the Union, (2) granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons, (3) allowing the states to veto federal laws, (4) creating a “separate but equal” society

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granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

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Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

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deny suffrage rights (voting rights) to African Americans

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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 African Americans

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After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of the

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passage of Jim Crow laws

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The position expressed in this statement is most closely associated with the beliefs of

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Abraham Lincoln