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Reconstruction Questions

1. What economic impact did the Civil War have on the South?

2. What impact did the Civil War have on the infrastructure of the South?

3. What was the purpose of the Homestead Act? What was its impact?

4. What was the purpose of the Morrill Act? What was its impact?

5. What was the purpose of the Pacific Railway Act? What was its impact?

6. Why was the Freedmens Bureau established?

7. What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment? What was its impact on the abolition
movement?

8. How did southern governments limit the effect of the 13 th Amendment?

9. Why did Radical Republicans consider Johnsons Reconstruction plan to be too lenient on the
South?

10.What was the significance of passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

11.What prompted Congress to propose the 14th Amendment?

12.How did the 14th Amendment impact African Americans?

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13.What Supreme Court ruling was impacted by the ratification of the 14 th Amendment?

14.What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?

15.What was the significance of Hiram Rhodes Revels election to Congress?

16.What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment?

17.What impact did the 15th Amendment have on Reconstruction?

18.What economic impact did sharecropping have on most African Americans?

19.What impact did the Compromise of 1877 have on the Reconstruction Era?

20. What methods did white-controlled governments use to exclude African Americans from legal,
economic, social, and political power?