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12 Cards in this Set
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The Fifteenth Amendment:
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sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
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During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:
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was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau:
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made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care.
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The northern vision of the Reconstruction-era southern economy included all of the following EXCEPT:
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the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible, thereby assuring high productivity.
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The crop-lien system:
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kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
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The southern Black Codes:
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allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
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The Fourteenth Amendment:
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marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
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During Reconstruction, southern state governments helped to finance:
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railroads.
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The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:
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stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Bargain of 1877:
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allowed for white Democratic control of the South.
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Thaddeus Stevens’s most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South.
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True
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Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.
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True
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