One example of the federal governments effort to promote the welfare and secure the rights of the newly freed slaves was the
a. advent of Jim Crow laws.
b. creation of the Freedmens Bureau.
c. introduction of literacy tests at the polls.
d. the passage of the Black Codes.
e. use of grandfather clauses.
Question 2
The term Reconstruction refers to
a. rebuilding the roads and railroads destroyed by General Sherman in Georgia.
b. restructuring war-ravaged state government buildings of both the Northern and Confederate states.
c. the period immediately following the Civil War.
d. the process of desegregation.
e. the struggle for abolition.
Federal vs state law
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