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English 29 Public

Prentice Hall America: History of Our Nation

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What is a sharecropper

Black Americans who farmed land in return for a portion of the value of the crop.

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Which of these is NOT a reason why the Freemen's Bureau was created?

Education

Tenant Farming

Food and Supplies

Unite Families

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What is a poll tax?

A personal tax to be paid before voting

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What amendment banned the use of slavery and forced labor?

13th

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What did the 14th Amendment say?

All people born or naturalized in the US are citizens

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What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal during the beginning of Reconstruction

Unite the Country

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Black Codes were made to do what?

Deny African American Rights

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What became a point of conflict during Reconstruction by Andrew Johnson and his party?

Approved marriage between races

Approved Blacks the ability to hold political office

Deny Blacks the ability to buy land

Denying Blacks the ability to hold political office

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Define segregation

enforced separation of races

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What amendment declared who a citizen was?

14th Amendment

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What part of the South's economy began recovery first during Reconstruction

Agriculture

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Why did sharecroppers (most of them) live in poverty?

They often owed landlords more than they made at the end of the year.

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What did the 15th Amendment do?

Gave black the right to vote

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Name 3 methods southern states used to prevent African Americans from being treated equal.

The grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, segregation, black codes, KKK

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What do you call a person that farms the land for his landlord to live on their property

Tenant Farmer

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What were enslaved people who had been freed by the war called?

freedman

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