The Amendment
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
Southern states passed these laws to restrict Black freedom right after losing a war ABOUT Black freedom
What are the Black Codes?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Formerly enslaved people were promised 40 acres and a mule — instead they got this
What is Nothing
I scream everyday but have no mouth, I have 3 hands but cannot touch. A dozen guardians circle me twice a day. What am I
The year the 14th Amendment was ratified
What is 1868?
This system re-enslaved Black Americans by arresting them for minor crimes and leasing them to private employers
What is convict leasing?
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was fine as long as facilities were "equal" — spoiler alert, they were never this
What is equal?
General Sherman distributed 400,000 acres of land to Black families but this President immediately took it back
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
You are stuck in a room with 3 doors, door 1 is filled full of sulfuric acid with microorganisms, door 2 is a jungle with pythons 20 feet long and door 3 has a lion that hasn't ate in 3 months. Which do you exit?
What is door 3
This clause guaranteed that no state could deny any person equal protection under the law
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
Southern states said this amendment guaranteed equal protection, then used it to protect everything EXCEPT Black people
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the Supreme Court's vote count in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
What is 7 to 1?
Southern states said Black men could vote, then required them to pass these — which coincidentally only Black men seemed to fail
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
You're driving in a desert, and you see 3 houses with large doors. House 1 has water, house 2 has money and house 3 has food. Which door do you open first?
What is the car door?
This Ohio Congressman was the primary author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment
Who is John A. Bingham?
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction by withdrawing all federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the only Justice honest enough to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Justice John Harlan?
This chronically underfunded government agency was the main source of food, shelter, and legal help for formerly enslaved people
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Find the Misstake
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What is Misstake
Congress passed this amendment to give Black Americans equal rights, then spent 100 years doing this to those same rights
What is ignoring them?
This practice by banks and governments denied Black Americans the ability to buy homes or build wealth in certain neighborhoods
What is redlining?
This 1954 Supreme Court case finally overturned Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
How long did the Reconstruction period last?
There was a murder on a steam train in a closed room. You -- the detective found the body and there is only 2 other people with keys to that room, the fire men who said he was shoveling coal into the fire and the driver who said he was in the cab. Who committed the murder.
Who is the detective