Failures of Reconstruction

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What was the primary focus of the video?

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The failures of post-Civil War Reconstruction

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Which colleges were founded for black Americans post-war?

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Morehouse and Howard

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What role did the Freedmen's Bureau play post-war?

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It helped reunite families separated by slavery and arranged for their education and welfare

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What system replaced slavery in the South? Options: Urbanization, Sharecropping, Industrialization, Technological advancements

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Sharecropping

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What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

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To terrorize black people and uphold white supremacy

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What did Black Codes restrict?

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Black Americans from testifying against white people in court, The ability to purchase land without borrowing, The racial segregation of Southern society.

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Why did Reconstruction officially end?

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Because of a hotly contested presidential election

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What was the Compromise of 1877?

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An arrangement that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South

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Who were the candidates in the contested presidential election of 1876?

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Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes

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What was a major consequence of the end of Reconstruction?

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The dominance of Democrats in the South and worsening conditions for black Americans