What were some of the changes caused during Reconstruction? Be specific.
A public education system was created, military troops were sent into the South, African Americans were given more rights
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What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
15th
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What were some of the rights gained by African Americans during Reconstruction? (Name at least 3)
Right to attend school, hold public office, vote for men, full citizenship
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What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
It provided food, shelter, and school for freed slaves after the Civil War.
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What was the effect of the Balck Codes on freedmen?
They were forced to be lower political, social, and economic statuses.
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What did they call Northerners who came to the South to take advantage of the economy during Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
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What were some of the ways the KKK showed violence against Blacks in the South?
They would stand outside polling places where African Americans voted, they lynched African Americans, they used violence and intimidation
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How did the end of slavery impact the South after the Civil War?
The economy was weakened because wealthy plantation owners could no longer rely on slave labor to produce cash crops.
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What group of people were affected by Jim Crow Laws?
African Americans
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Explain the system of sharecropping. What was the role of the freed slaves? What was the role of the landowers?
Freed slaves could live and work on the land of landowners. They would provide all the labor in exchange for living there and a small percentage of the crops.
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Why was sharecropping a positive system for Southern planters?
The freedmen would provide the labor on plantations after slavery was abolished.
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What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
A group of people who were violent toward African Americans in the South
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What was a positive impact from Reconstruction on poor whites?
The public school system was established so all people had access to education.
