Identify how the Jim Crow Laws had an effect on the lives of African Americans during and after the Reconstruction
What is
They kept African Americans separate from whites but treated them equally
100
Which of the following laws said that all men should be given rights regardless of their race?
14th Amendment
What is?
14th Amendment
100
Which of the following accurately compares slavery to sharecropping ?
What is
Blacks made no money while being slaves, and made barely enough to survive while sharecropping.
100
Freed slaves (men only) received the right to vote as a result of what law?
What is
15th Amendment
100
Which correctly contrast the 13-15 amendment with the Jim Crow Laws?
What is
The amendment gave freed slaves their basic freedom and
equality, while the Jim Crow Laws took most of the freedom away by making things,"separate but equal."
200
Following the Civil War very few African Americans were able to own land, so they often farmed on a white landowner' farm.
What is
Sharecropping
200
The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation (declared slavery illegal in the south), signed by Abraham Lincoln, is most similar to what Reconstruction Era law change, which was signed by Congress?
the 13th Amendment
What is
the 13th Amendment
200
Following the Civil War the Freedman's Bureau began helping former slaves with legal issues, gain ownership of the land and reunite with their families. Which of the following best describe the impact of the Freedman's Bureau on the relationship between whites and blacks?
What is?
Many southern whites claimed that the Bureau was organizing blacks against their former owners.
200
Which of the following steps is NOT necessary when passing a new amendment to the Constitution?
What is
3/4 of the Supreme Court Justices must vote to pass the new amendment
200
Segregated restrooms were common in the south after the Civil War as a result of....
What is
Jim Crow Laws
300
Following the Civil War three new amendments were passed. What is the purpose of an amendment?
What is
An amendment changes the law and improves the equality of life for American citizens.
300
The decade following the Civil War was a time of helping the North and South Figure out how to continue after so much had been destroyed. This time period is known as...
What is
Reconstruction
400
What was provided to frees slaves as a result of the Freedman's Bureau?
What is
Schools
500
What were two ways that freed slaves were kept from voting even after the amendment passed giving them legal rights to vote?