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| What did the fifteenth Amendment guarantee? |
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| African-American men the right to vote |
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| What broght reconstruction to an end in the south? |
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| what role did the freedmen's bureau play in reconstruction? |
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| operated schools to educate former enslaved people. |
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| How did the panic of 1873 affect reconstruction? |
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| economic hard times caused Northerners to lose intrerst in reconstruction. |
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| what divided the south into five military districts? |
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| Reconstruction acts of 1867 |
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| What did the house of Representatives do when President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act? |
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| why did the Fourteenth Amendment follow the Civil Rights Act 1866? |
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| congress wanted equality to be protected by the consitution |
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| Why were many white women angry about the Fifteenth Amendment? |
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| they believed that women should also have the right to vote. |
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| how did the Supreme court undermine (weaken) the Forteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? |
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| It ruled that the Federal governement could not punish individuals for civil rights violations |
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| who led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan? |
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| Which of the following systems created a cycle of debt? |
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| Which of the following was true of the Freedmen's Bureau? |
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| it distributed clothes, food, and fuel to former enslaved people |
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| What was an effect of the formation of the Liberal Republican Party? |
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| The republicans were less able to impose tough reconstruction policies on the south. |
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| how did the Panic of 1873 affect Reconstruction? |
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| Americans began losing intrerest in Reconstruction |
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| The Fifteenth Amendment to the Consitution was passed to |
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| give African-American men the right to vote. |
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| What might explain why the stock market collapsed after a number of Eastern banks ran out of money in 1873? |
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| the banks demanded repayment of loans, and many people tried to sell their stock at the same time. |
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| Which of the following was an effect of the Panic of 1873? |
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| Angry Republicans broke away and formed the Liberal Republican Party. |
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| What resulted from the Compromise of 1877? |
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| Republican Reconstruction in the South collapsed. |
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| Which amendment to the Constitution granted citzenship to formerly slaves? |
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| Why was Johnson impeached by the House of Representatives in 1867? |
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| He broke the law by firing his secretary of war without Senate approval |
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| Which of the following allowed African- American farmers to rent land on credit and five a share of their crops to the landowner as payment? |
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