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  1. What was the goal of the Black Codes?
Ato protect the rights of the freed people
Bto increase the number of black voters in the South
Cto prevent white southerners from enslaving freedpeople
Dto force blacks into slave-like conditions

  1. Freed people wanted more than anything to own land. If they could own land, then they believed they would have economic independence.

True


False

  1. The United States government banned freedpeople from owning Confederate lands and passed the Southern Homestead Act in 1866 to prevent them from having public land.

True


False

  1. How successful was the U.S. government at helping freedpeople own land in the mid to late-1800s?

Aextremely successful

Bnot very successful

Cvery successful

Dnone of the above

  1. This individual grew up in a free black family in Pennsylvania. She became a volunteer teacher in the Sea Islands off South Carolina.

AHarriet Tubman

BCharlotte Forten

CRose Anderson

DJoanna Johnson

  1. Which political party did most black voters in the South support?

AProgressive Party

BDemocratic Party

CRepublican Party

DLiberty Party