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Which of the following were used to keep African Americans from voting?
a) violence
b) literacy tests
c) poll taxes
d) all of these

What were black codes?
a) laws that turned minor things, like unemployment, into crimes
b) laws that gave former slaves freedom of speech and the right to vote
c) laws that regulated sharecropping
d) laws that brought an end to Reconstruction

Which Constitutional amendment gave African American males the right to vote?
a) 13th Amendment
b) 14th Amendment
c) 15th Amendment
d) 16th Amendment

Which Constitutional amendment granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection of the laws?
a) 13th Amendment
b) 14th Amendment
c) 15th Amendment
d) 16th Amendment

What was established by Congress in 1865 to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to newly freed slaves and poor whites in the South?
a) KKK
b) The 15th Amendment
c) The Compromise of 1877
d) Freedmen's Bureau

What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision that declared that separate, but equal public facilities were legal?
a) Brown v. Board of Education
b) Plessy v. Ferguson
c) The Dred Scott case
d) Marbury v. Madison

What is lynching?
a) renting farmland for cash
b) forcing someone into slavery
c) public murder committed by a mob
d) voting

What were Jim Crow laws?
a) laws that prevented African Americans from marrying
b) laws that allowed African American men to vote
c) laws that governed sharecropping
d) segregation laws

What was the new labor arrangement that developed in the South during Reconstruction in which the renter paid half or more of the harvested crop to the landowner?
a) tenant farming
b) sharecropping
c) convict leasing
d) Jim Crow laws

Why did crime rates increase in the South after the Civil War?
a) more minor offenses were classified as crimes
b) the population increased greatly
c) the people became more disrespectful
d) more police were hired

Which of the following earned Southern states large amounts of money in the years following the Civil War?
a) selling cotton
b) building new railroads and telegraph lines
c) selling land to new farmers
d) leasing convicts to business owners

Which of the following is the loophole that exists in the 13th Amendment?
a) it allowed violence to keep former slaves from voting
b) it allows slavery as a punishment for a crime
c) it said that former slaves were U.S. citizens, but not citizens of the state in which they lived
d) it allowed border states to keep slavery

Which of the following Constitutional amendments abolished slavery?
a) 13th Amendment
b) 14th Amendment
c) 15th Amendment
d) 16th Amendment

What brought an end to Reconstruction?
a) The 15th Amendment
b) The Freedmen's Bureau
c) A compromise made between Northerners and Southerners after the presidential election of 1876
d) The KKK

Who became U.S. President after Lincolns' assassination?
a) Samuel Tilden
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) Andrew Johnson
d) Rutherford Hayes

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