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Which of the following is the best description of the Reconstruction Era?

• The process of African Americans adjusting to life as freedmen

• Southern states rejoining the Northern states

Hiram Rhodes Revels is significant to American history because he -

• symbolized the end of the Civil War

• helped grow the popularity of the Republican party in the South

• was the first African American to serve as a member of the Senate

• championed the rights of Hispanic Americans in state politics

Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction differed from that of Congress by -

• Johnson wanting Southerners to be allowed to keep slaves

• Congress desiring to punish the South harshly for their actions during the Civil War

Who became president after Andrew Johnson?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Zachary Taylor

Which words most accurately reflect Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

• “with malice towards none”

• "revenge is the justice due upon our southern counterparts”

The era after the Civil War when the South went through the process of being accepted back into the Union-

• Reconstruction Era

• American Revolution Era

The purpose of the “Black Codes” were to -

• ensure rights of African Americans were protected

• limit many rights of African Americans

Southerners viewed “Carpetbaggers” as -

• mean political leaders that forbid the practice of slavery

• people from the North who wanted to take advantage of the Southerners

The Jim Crow Laws affected society in the South by -

• helping freedmen find jobs

• creating the sharecropping system that kept African Americans from making a lot of money

• separating African Americans from white citizens in schools and businesses

African Americans are citizens is to the 14th Amendment: As African Americans can vote is to the ________________

• Appomattox Court House

• Reconstruction Era

• Vicksburg

• 15th Amendment