Question 1

Explain how the Freedmen’s Bureau impacted African Americans.

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The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to assist newly emancipated people with the transition from slavery to freedom. The Bureau built schools and hospitals, provided teachers, and assisted veterans to get pensions and benefits owed them. Families assisted by the Bureau were able to improve their lives

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The Freedmen's Bureau was created to assist newly emancipated people by helping them escape slavery. There were underground railroads that snuck people from the south to the north. After obtaining freedom, they received no help at all.

Question 2

How did agriculture in Texas change during Reconstruction?

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Farmers focused on cash crops.

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The ranching industry failed.

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Farms were replaced with factories.

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Every family had a large garden.

Question 3

What does the 14th Amendment do?

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makes newly emancipated people citizens

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gives male citizens the right to vote

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protects the right to own guns

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abolishes legalized slavery

Question 4

What does the 15th Amendment do?

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gives male citizens the right to vote

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protects the right to own guns

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makes newly emancipated people citizens

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abolishes legalized slavery

Question 5

The Texas Constitution of 1866 gave the same rights to all people wholived in Texas

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false

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true

Question 6

How was sharecropping different than slavery?

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A portion of the harvest was kept by the sharecropper.

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Housing and tools were provided by the landowner

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Sharecroppers farmed someone else’s land.

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Workers did not receive a salary or wage

Question 7

Read the passage from Studies Weekly:

In 1871, the Texas legislature created the Texas Bureau of Immigration. Thepurpose of this organization was to promote immigration and protect the rightsof immigrants. … Immigration agents traveled throughout the United States andEurope to encourage immigrants to move to Texas.

What is a result of their efforts?

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Texas has many different cultures.

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Segregation between races increased

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Congress stopped immigration to Texas.

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Americans moved to European countries.

Question 8

Read the passage from Studies Weekly:

Additional sections were added to the Bill of Rights … to clearly define suffrage (voting rights) and taxation. Other sections explained the rights and expectations of private and municipal corporations, and the role of county governments.

Why did the delegates feel it was important to add articles to the Bill of Rights?

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They felt additional rights not listed in the Bill of Rights were important to define forTexas citizens.

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They wanted the Bill of Rights to be so long that citizens wouldn't want to read it, and thus would not truly know their rights.

Question 9

Read the passage from Studies Weekly:

They believed that Congress … didn’t have the authority or knowledge to tell them how to run their communities…. [They] ... did everything they could to keep things the same as they were before the war.

What was a direct consequence of this attitude?

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Legalized discrimination was created.

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The federal government took over Texas.

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Sharecropping decreased on plantations

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Texas seceded from the United States

Question 10

Read the passage from the 15th Amendment:

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Which policies violate the 15th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

Children of formerly enslaved people cannot vote and citizens born in Mexico cannot enter polling places.

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People must stand in line outside to vote, tourists from Argentina are not given ballots, and poll workers check voter identification cards.

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