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After the Civil War ended in 1865, the country began the process of bringing the South back into the Union. This period of time was called
a) Reconstruction
b) Emancipation
c) Industrial Revolution
d) the Great Depression

The period after the Civil War was known as Reconstruction. To deal with the conditions after the war, the federal government created the Freedmen's Bureau. What was its purpose?
a) to help Union soldiers
b) to help Confederate soldiers receive medical care
c) to help former slaves
d) to help women obtain the right to vote in elections

How are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which are known as the Reconstruction amendments, similar?
a) These amendments increased civil rights for African-Americans.
b) Congress passed these amendments to expand government powers.
c) These amendments increased voting rights among U.S. minority groups.
d) Congress passed these amendments to satisfy former Confederate soldiers.

The Jim Crow laws made _______ legal.
a) share-cropping
b) segregation
c) African American Schools
d) slavery

Who was president after Abraham Lincoln?
a) George Washington
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) Andrew Johnson
d) John F. Kennedy

The amendment that abolished slavery
a) 3rd
b) 13th
c) 14th
d) 15th

What does impeached mean?
a) Promoted.
b) Fired from a government job.
c) Supports slavery.
d) a Scalawag.

Many states wanted to get around the laws Congress passed. They created ______ to limit the rights of African Americans.
a) carpetbaggers
b) sharecropping
c) black codes
d) scalawags

Which amendment said that African Americans are citizens and all people are to be treated equally by law.
a) 13th
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 8th

Which amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
a) 13th
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 16th

What is an amendment?
a) A change to the law
b) Removing a law
c) Voting on a law
d) People not following a law.

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