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Reconstruction

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    What is the historical significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

    It was the first time Congress voted to overrule a presidential veto

    It represented a shift in federal power after the impeachment of President Johnson

    It showed Congress' intent to pass laws that protected racial minorities

    It represented the failure of northern abolitionists to influence Reconstruction policies.

  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    Reforms such as a more equitable tax system, the prohibition of racial discrimination, and the establishment of the South's first state funded public school system were instituted by--

    governors during the colonial era

    Reconstruction governments after the Civil War

    Patriots during the American Revolution

    revivalists after the Second Great Awakening

  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    Southern states passed Black Codes in order to--

    limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

    increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

    decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

    improve relations with the Democratic Party

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