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- What revolution enabled the population to grow which provides the workforce for the industrial revolution?
- Who were the two African Americans to serve as U.S. senators during Reconstruction?
- Why were freedmen eager to attend the schools created by the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?
- Which of these people paid rent to a landowner to raise crops and lived on the landowner's land, which sometimes led to them being exploited?
- Which practice sometimes led to a tenant farmer being treated like a slave?
- In which system did a landowner allow his land to be farmed by a freedman in exchange for receiving half of the crops the freedman produced each year?
- Which of these phrases describes vocational training, which Booker T. Washington advocated for freedmen?
- the concept of letting people decide on their own rules and government
- After slavery was abolished in the South, what type of cheap labor did plantations rely on?
- How did the Thirteenth Amendment expand the rights of African Americans?
- a line of ships that prevents enemy ships from entering or leaving a harbor
- At which level of government did most African American politicians hold office during Reconstruction?
- seizing something for public use or forcing someone into public service
- According to the Wade-Davis Bill, which of these would need to happen before a former Confederate state could be readmitted to the United States?
- Which of these statements describes the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson?
- According to President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, which of these would need to happen before a former Confederate state could be readmitted to the United States?
- What concept would support no government regulations in regards to factories?
- the third branch of the U.S. government and the highest court in the nation
- Which of these abolished slavery in all U.S. states and provided the rights of citizenship to former slaves?
- a government's plan for dealing with other nations