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Which amendment abolishes slavery?
The 13 Amendment
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What are the rights guaranteed to all people by the constitution?
Civil rights
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What are black codes?
Laws to control formerly owned black slaves.
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What was sharecropping?
Planters dividing their land into small plots to rent out to "tenant farmers," who then paid their rent by sharing 1/3 or 1/2 of their crops.
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What were the rights African Americans had during reconstruction?
To marry, and live with family members they were formerly separated from.
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Who was denied the right to vote in the Military Reconstruction Act?
Southerners who supported the confederacy
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What was the most lasting benefit if the Freedmen's Bureau?
Education for former slaves and African Americans
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How many people voted Johnson "not guilty" while at trial?
7 Republicans and 12 Democrats
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What is President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
A former Confedeate state could rejoin the Union once it had written a new state constitution, elected a new state government, repealed its act of secession, canceled it's war debts, and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Who in congress reorganized the South into five military districts?
Radical republicans
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