Reconstruction Era Midterm Exam Review

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Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included...

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forgiveness for most Confederates

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Which Reconstruction plan imposed military rule on the Southern states?

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Radical Reconstruction

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Which region was left most damaged physically and economically after the Civil War?

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South

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What did the Thirteenth Amendment state?

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abolish slavery throughout the US

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What did the Freedmen's Bureau do to help newly freed slaves? Options: showed them maps of the Underground Railroad, taught them to become farmers, helped them find homes and jobs, all of the above

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helped them find homes and jobs

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Which is an example of a Jim Crow law? Options: Freedmen must be allowed to vote, Black and white people must ride in separate train cars, Freedmen can't gather in groups, Freedmen can NOT vote

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Black and white people must ride in separate train cars

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What did the 14th Amendment state?

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people born in the US are citizens

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Which is NOT true of freedmen after the Civil War? Options: most didn't have much education, many became sharecroppers, they were higly skilled and well paid, they were often discriminated against

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they were higly skilled and well paid

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What did Radical Republicans want? Options: a quick and easy reunion of North and South, protection of freedmen and punishment for the South, higher taxes for the southern states, Jim Crow laws and black codes

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protection of freedmen and punishment for the South

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Who were helped by grandfather clauses?

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poor, uneducated whites