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Questions and Answers
  • 1. 

    What was Reconstruction?

    • A.

      Time of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

    • B.

      Time of creating buildings after the Civil War

    • C.

      Time of building more railroads after the Civil War

    • D.

      Time of building more factories after the Civil War

    Correct Answer
    A. Time of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
    Explanation
    CRCT Coach page 98

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  • 2. 

    What was the 13th Amendment?

    • A.

      Gave woman the right to vote

    • B.

      Gave black men the right to vote

    • C.

      Ended slavery

    • D.

      Gave black men citizenship

    Correct Answer
    C. Ended slavery
    Explanation
    Coach pg 98

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  • 3. 

    What was the 14th Amendment?

    • A.

      Gave women the right to vote

    • B.

      Gave black men the right to vote

    • C.

      Ended slavery

    • D.

      Gave black men citizenship

    Correct Answer
    D. Gave black men citizenship
    Explanation
    Coach pg 98

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  • 4. 

    What was the 15th Amendment?

    • A.

      Gave women the right to vote

    • B.

      Gave black men the right to vote

    • C.

      Ended slavery

    • D.

      Gave black men citizenship

    Correct Answer
    B. Gave black men the right to vote
    Explanation
    Coach pg 99

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  • 5. 

    What is segregation?

    • A.

      Separation of men

    • B.

      Separation of the races

    • C.

      Separation of children

    • D.

      Separation of women

    Correct Answer
    B. Separation of the races
    Explanation
    Coach pg 99

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  • 6. 

    What were black codes?

    • A.

      Laws to control blacks

    • B.

      Laws to control women

    • C.

      Laws to control men

    • D.

      Laws to control children

    Correct Answer
    A. Laws to control blacks
    Explanation
    Coach pg 99

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  • 7. 

    Sharecropping and Tenant Farming were very similar to?

    • A.

      Indentured servanthood

    • B.

      Slavery

    • C.

      Colonialism

    • D.

      Industrialization

    Correct Answer
    B. Slavery
    Explanation
    Coach 99

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  • 8. 

    The Freedmen's Bureau provided all the following services to former slaves and poor whites except:

    • A.

      Schools

    • B.

      Job and job training

    • C.

      Food

    • D.

      Guns

    Correct Answer
    D. Guns
    Explanation
    Coach pg 98

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  • 9. 

    Which of the ideas below did the Radical Republicans believe in?

    • A.

      More freedoms for African Americans

    • B.

      Leniency for former Confederate soldiers

    • C.

      Slowing down Reconstruction

    • D.

      Preventing African Americans from holding office

    Correct Answer
    A. More freedoms for African Americans
    Explanation
    Coach pg 98

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  • 10. 

    Which person was one of the first African Americans elected to the U.S. Senate?

    • A.

      Tunis Campbell

    • B.

      Austin Dabney

    • C.

      Henry McNeal Turner

    • D.

      Andrew Johnson

    Correct Answer
    A. Tunis Campbell
    Explanation
    Coach pg 99

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  • 11. 

    Why did the Supreme Court allow Southern states to practice segregation?

    • A.

      They decided it was an issue of states' rights

    • B.

      They allowed it if accommodations were "separate but equal"

    • C.

      The justices said black codes were illegal and banned them

    • D.

      They believed it would decrease violence

    Correct Answer
    B. They allowed it if accommodations were "separate but equal"
    Explanation
    Coach page 99

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