EOC Review 1

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The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

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ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

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Reconstruction came to end when

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federal troops were removed from the South.

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Adopted in 1868, guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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14th Amendment

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Adopted in 1870, expanded suffrage by prohibiting states from discriminating in voting privileges based on race. All men could now vote.

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15th Amendment

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The period after the Civil War of bringing the Confederate states back into the Union and dealing with the integration of former slaves into American society. It ended with the Compromise of 1877.

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Reconstruction

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Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to nullify the codes, Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Black Codes

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What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

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The Homestead Act

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This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

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The Dawes Act

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This innovation helped link the country's natural resources from the west with the factories on the east.

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Transcontinental Railroad, Railroads, railroads, Railroad, railroad

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Which of the following was passed due to nativism and concerns over job competition?
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Homestead Act,
Dawes Act,
Chinese Exclusion Act,
Interstate Commerce Act

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Chinese Exclusion Act