Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire United States. A person could only be forced to work without pay if they were a prisoner.
What is the 13th amendment?
…It shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any white person to intermarry with any freedman, free negro, or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry, shall be deemed guilty…and confined to the state penitentiary for life.
The punishment for intermarriage between people of color and whites.
What is life in prison?
It was started in this state, mostly as a drinking club for Confederate Veterans.
What is Tennessee?
Andrew Johnson blamed and resented wealthy Confederate southern plantation owners, as he had grown up poor. He made them do this to gain forgiveness and reenter American politics.
What is travel to Washington, D.C. to ask his personal forgiveness?
To be murdered and publicly displayed. This happened to thousands of newly freed African American people (especially black men) when they tried to exercise their rights, or were accused of any crimes against white people.
What is lynching?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship to all individuals born or naturalized in the United States, regardless of their prior status or that of their families (being enslaved). It also required due process and protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
No person shall be a representative (elected to office) unless he be a white man, a citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of the State two years next preceding his election…
This Black Code states that a black man can not do this.
What is run for and be elected to political office?
What is Latin?
Andrew Johnson did this to the 13th Amendment, but it passed anyway because at that time the Republicans controlled Congress.
What is vetoed it?
He would become the president after Johnson, he was in favor of equality for black men, and had led the Union army to victory.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment guaranteed voting rights for black men.
What is the 15th amendment?
Persons of color shall not testify, except where the prosecution is against a person who is a person of color ; or where the offence is charged to have been committed against the person or property of a person of color.
According to this Black Code, who are the only people black people are allowed to testify in court about?
Who are only other people of color? Black people were not allowed to testify against whites, but whites were allowed to testify against blacks.
The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations and individuals did this to many black schools, businesses and churches to scare and intimidate black Americans from exercising their rights.
What is burnt them down?
These were the republicans that fought for full equality for black people and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
Who were the radical republicans?
What was the Panic of 1873?
This is what is was called when black people were threatened and killed when trying to exercise their rights, like voting.
What is lynching?
Another name for the Black Codes and era of inequality for black people in the United States.
What is Jim Crow?
Later, at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, the KKK also targeted these people.
Who were immigrants, Jews and Roman Catholics?
True or False - When African American men were protected by the federal government to participate fully in politics, they were very active, voted and were elected locally and at the state and national levels too.
What is true?
These were made as souvenirs from lynchings, people who participated in them were proud to have their photos taken by black corpses and shared with others form other towns and states, as a warning to black people.
What were postcards?
If a person was not allowed to vote because they were a black man, it is a violation of this amendment.
What is the 14th amendment?
"If any freedman, free negro, or mulatto, convicted of any of the misdemeanors (crimes_...shall fail or refuse for the space of five days, after conviction, to pay the fine and costs imposed, such person shall be hired out by the sheriff or other officer...to any white person who will pay said fine and all costs, and take said convict for the shortest time".
This black code gave black people how long to pay their fines?
What was five days?
True or False - There have been presidents who were members of the KKK.
What is true? For example, Woodrow Wilson.
This bureau was created to build schools and support the newly freed black population. Johnson did not support it and their budget was very small.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Grant's was raised by parents who did not believe in slavery, called these people.
Who were abolitionists?