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What guaranteed equal access to public facilities regardless of race?

the Thirteenth Amendment

the Fifteenth Amendment

the 1875 Civil Rights Act

the Jim Crow laws

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To combat Reconstruction reforms, some Southerners organized

white supremacy groups.

the Freedmen’s Bureau.

a new Republican Party.

the civil rights movement.

What was one reason sharecropping began in the South?

It was a way to take advantage of the South’s strong infrastructure.

The federal government required Southerners to use this system.

Landowners needed laborers, and freed slaves needed work.

Farmers were the only Southerners who still had money after the Civil War.

Which statement best describes a consequence of Reconstruction policies during the 1870s?

Reconstruction-era policies successfully restored the economy in the South and gave African Americans new opportunities.

Reconstruction-era policies often failed to protect African Americans from racial violence and safeguard their political rights.

Reconstruction-era policies created ironclad laws that prohibited legal segregation, although illegal segregation often occurred.

Reconstruction-era policies failed to establish any civil rights legislation, which would not be written until the 1960s.

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