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What did sharecropping lead to?
a) A lifetime of poverty and debt
b) property ownership
c) prosperity
d)

How were new governments to be formed under military reconstruction?
a) by southerners loyal to the US - both black and white.
b) by elections organized by the confederates.
c) by northerners loyal to the US
d)

What kinds of jobs could freedmen get?
a) Farm work, or have jobs requiring few skills
b) Any job that they wanted.
c) Bosses
d)

Under the Military Reconstruction Act, how were the 5 military districts in the South governed?
a) by a general backed by federal troops.
b) by a congressman
c) by the president
d)

What was not a purpose of the black codes?
a) To bring Freedmen to the top of the social order in the South.
b) To help planters find workers to replace their slaves.
c) To spell out the rights of freedmen.
d)

What did a state have to do to be able to rejoin the Union?
a) All were needed to rejoin the Union.
b) Write a new state constitution, elect a new state government
c) Repeal its act of secession, cancel it war debts, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
d)

Under congressional Reconstruction, political power in the South shifted to
a) former slaves and whites who had been loyal to the US
b) white southern Democrats
c) KKK
d)

The 15th Amendment guarantees to all Americans, regardless of race,
a) the right to vote.
b) separate but equal public facilities.
c) 40 acres and a mule.
d)

Who led the South under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
a) wealthy white planters
b) federal troops
c) carpetbaggers and scalawags
d)

What did the 15th Amendment do?
a) It protected the right of African American men to vote.
b) It allowed freedom of speech .
c) It protected the right for women to vote.
d)

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