Manifest Destiny — Unit test Answers

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During Reconstruction, which group or organization built schools for African Americans and trained teachers?

the Freedmen’s Bureau

the Southern Democratic Party

the carpetbaggers

the scalawags

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During the late 1800s, the Union League was focused on

uniting Northern and Southern workers in unions.

driving all the carpetbaggers out of the South.

the public education of children in the South.

African American involvement in government.

When sharecropping first developed, what did it offer African Americans?

the opportunity to learn how to farm by working for landowners

the opportunity to farm part time and attend school part time

the opportunity to save money by using crops to pay rent

the opportunity to rent and farm land they could not afford to buy

In the late 1800s, sharecroppers paid their rent with

pieces of equipment.

part of the harvest.

seeds and supplies.

part of their cash.

During Reconstruction, Congress passed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

to establish martial law in parts of the South and maintain law and order in the wake of growing violence.

to grant African Americans more rights, such as citizenship, and greater protections under the law.

to create stricter laws against violence and stop the terrorism and intimidation tactics of the Ku Klux Klan.

to give White Southerners more rights, particularly poor farmers who were struggling financially after the war.

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