Black Codes
What are Black Codes?
What is Laws that limited African Americans?
what were advantages and disadvantages of sharecropping for the sharecroppers?
debt, poor living, the supplies to work, and access to the land.
Literacy Test were used to do what?
What is used to discriminate, in this case, specifically against African Americans to keep them from voting.
Who was the president that ran the idea of the congressional reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
What was the purpose of the amendments after the civil war.
What is to unite the country by fixing the problems that split the country.
When did Black Codes end?
What is 1964
Who were the most common type of people who used sharecropping and offered it to people
Mostly previous slave owners
who designed the literacy test and what kind of questions were included?
the questions asked: readings comprehension, complex and unclear, and writing and dictation.
who designed the test: southern state legislatures, local election officials, and political leaders.
Which Amendment was required to be ratified from the south in the congressional reconstruction
Thirteenth Amendment
What is the connection between the 14th and 15th amendments.
What is the 14th amendments made everyone citizens if they were born in the states and the 15th made all citizens able to vote.
Black Codes started in what year?
What is 1865-1866
why did sharecropping start
Because slavery was banned and people needed a alternative
how did literacy test differ from different states?
complexity of questions, Grandfather clauses, educational exemptions
How many requirements did Andrew Johnson want from the South for them to be readmitted back to the country?
3
Why was the 14th amendment important in the reconstruction of the union after the civil war.
What is it made it so that all people born or raised in America are citizens so the slaves were now citizens
How were Black codes enforced?
What is by all-white police and state militia forces
When did sharecropping start?
1865.
what was the purpose of literacy tests, and were they always applied fairly?
the purpose: vote suppression
was its fairly applied: no, Bias questions, avoiding the 15th amendment.
What did Lincoln require the south to do so they could join the country?
Take the oath of allegiance.
What was the consequences for former slaves in the south because of the amendments.
What is the south created black codes and Jim crow laws to limit the rights of former slaves.
What impacts do Black Codes have?
What is something along the lines of restricting African Americans right, such as owning property, conducting business, moving freely, voting , and essentially forced them to continue working for their former slave owners
What did sharecropping offer to people who did it
Food, shelter,tools, and seeds
How come Literacy test discriminated against African Americans?
What is African American's were former slaves and most slaves were not taught to read so if the didn't pass the literacy test then you couldn't vote.
What was Lincolns main goal in the presidential reconstruction?
To reunite the country.
What was the purpose of the 13th amendment.
What is to ban slavery and forced servitude.