Rights and Amendments
"The 13th Amendment completely ended slavery because it made slavery illegal."
What important qualification would you add to make the statement historically accurate?
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.
Mississippi passes laws requiring Black workers to enter labor contracts and allowing authorities to arrest workers who leave their employers.
What larger goal did these laws serve?
Limiting the economic freedom and mobility of formerly enslaved people.
President __________ repeatedly veoted legislation supported by Congressional Republicans, including measures intended to protect formerly enslaved people.
Andrew Johnson
A group uses violence and intimidation to prevent Black Americans from voting and to attack people who support Reconstruction governments.
What group does this description most directly identify?
The Ku Klux Klan
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments each addressed a different aspect of freedom.
Summarize both the 14th and 15th Amendments.
The 14th addressed citizenship and equal protection, while the 15th prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Mr. Smith signs a contract to work on Mr. Jones' land, growing crops. Mr. Smith will pay Mr. Jones $400 at the end of the growing season for rent and supplies. At the end of the growing season, Mr. Smith didn't sell enough crops to make that $400, so now he's in debt to Mr. Jones. Now, he can't leave, because he's in debt.
The name of the system above is called _______
Sharecropping cycle
"African Americans didn't achieve political representation during Reconstruction"
Provide one piece of evidence to counter this statement.
50,000 African Americans voted in 1868 election
2,000 political positions
The city of _____________ showed an example of thriving Black political and economic power before 1898
Wilmington, NC
A historian claims:
"The Reconstruction amendments profoundly and meaningfully changed the lives of African Americans in the southern US."
Give ONE piece of evidence from Rconstruction that COUNTERS this claim and explain how it supports the claim.
Possible answers: Black Codes, sharecropping, racial violence, voter suppression, discriminatory labor practices, etc.
Name two freedoms that were restricted by Black Codes
Possible answers: go into certain parts of town, carry weapons, interracial marriage
Which of the following people would most likely make the following statement: "the 14th Amendment's promise of Citizenship for African Americans was a sham"
A. Andrew Johnson
B. An ex-Confederate soldier
C. A sharecropper
How did the Democratic Party in Wilmington, NC aim to take back political power in the 1898 election?
They launched a propaganda campaign depicting Black men as dangerous toward White owmen
A historian claims:
"The Reconstruction amendments profoundly and meaningfully changed the lives of African Americans in the southern US."
Give ONE piece of evidence from Rconstruction that SUPPORTS this claim and explain how it supports the claim.
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
2,000 African Americans in office
Name and describe 3 forms of voter disenfranchisement during the Reconstruction era.
Literacy test
Grandfather clause
The election of 1876 produced no clear winner, eventually leading to the Compromise of 1877.
Explain one political consequence of the compromise and why it mattered for Reconstruction.
Republicans won the presidency but pulled federal troops out of the South, abandoning efforts to protect Black Americans and enforce new rights
What was the compromise made during the Compromise of 1877? What was one result of this compromise?