Amendments
Fill in the blank: “Neither slavery nor _________ _________, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
“Neither slavery nor "INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE" except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
African American woman who was born into slavery and worked as a teacher while she fought for social justice.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Explain segregation...
What is the "Separation of people of different races.”
What were the most important problems the United States faced at the start of the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War?
1) What to do with millions of newly freed slaves.
2) How does the Union let the Confederate States rejoin?
3) Need to rebuild homes, farms, railroads, etc.
Why did the Republican Party not support women's suffrage during this time? (Women's right to vote)
They did not think it was possible to rally national support behind the essential goal of African American suffrage if they tried to include women, too.
Fill in the blank: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of ______ of the United States." (Hint: 14th Amendment)
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of "CITIZENS" of the United States."
This President gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
“Laws that limited the rights of African Americans by keeping them as landless workers.”
What is Black Codes?
What did General Sherman propose for his idea of reconstructing the United States?
40 Acres & A Mule.
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction might be referred to as...
What is a "carpetbagger?"
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This person is responsible for the 40 Acres and a Mule reconstruction plan.
Who was General Sherman?
"An American white supremacist hate group.”
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
This person is responsible for the 10% plan.
Who is "Abraham Lincoln?"
“Laws that kept African Americans and whites segregated, or apart.”
What are "Jim-Crow Laws?"
“Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
Famous African-American leader who promoted vocational education.
Who was Booker T Washington?
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
An organization that provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African-Americans.
What did the "Radical Republicans" want to do with their plan?
Wanted harsh punishments for the Confederates, Committed crimes by enslaving people and bringing the nation to a war, Wanted full citizenship, Right to vote, Wanted to give confederate land to African-Americans.
White men who were barred from pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier peers would be referred to as...
What is a scalawag?
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
What is the 13th Amendment?
Argued that African Americans should demand full citizenship & not settle for only vocational types of education.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
What is sharecropping?
“When a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.”
What did Reverend Garrison Frazier propose as his plan for reconstructing the United States?
Wanted newly freed people to be placed on land until they could buy it and make it their own.
Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1875...
"Guaranteed African American citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities, such as hotels.”