13th Amendment
What did the 13th Amendment do
Officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Guaranteed citizenship for anyone born or naturalized in the U.S.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote
The Reconstruction Era began after this major event
The Civil War
A change or addition to the Constitution
Amendment
This group is the exception in the 13th Amendment
Criminals
What is equal protection?
Part of the 14th Amendment that says states must treat people fairly under the law.
Even after the 15th Amendment, states used these two tools to stop African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests and poll taxes
These laws enforced segregation in the South from the late 1800s to the 1960
Jim Crow
This word means being a legal member of a country with rights and responsibilities
Citizenship
Many Southern states relied on this method after the Civil War, using the 13th Amendment loophole.
Criminalizing minor actions like vagrancy and loitering
Which section of the 14th Amendment reduced a state’s representation if they denied men the right to vote.
Section 2
Despite the 15th Amendment, this group of people was still excluded from voting.
Women
The goal of Reconstruction
These laws enforced segregation in the South from the late 1800s to the 1960s
Jim Crow Laws
This documentary explains how mass incarceration grew after the 13th Amendment.
(name and director)
13th by Ava DuVernay?
This group was barred from holding office unless Congress voted to forgive them with a 2/3 vote.
Confederate leaders
This year/era officially abolished poll taxes and literacy tests
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was one major challenge the South faced after the Civil War and used the 13th Amendment loophole to solve.
Rebuilding their economy without enslaved labor
This voting requirement forced people to pay money before being allowed to vote.
Poll Tax
This region was more likely to oppose the 13th Amendment because their economy depended on enslaved labor.
Southern Confederate States
The United States government is committed to paying its debts, but will not _____________ any Confederate debts or financial losses including the loss of slaves due to _____________ .
repay/ emancipation
This famous activist warned that if Black women were excluded from voting rights, Black men could become “masters over the women.”
Sojourner Truth
During Reconstruction, Southern states created these laws to maintain control over the Black labor force and limit freedom, effectively recreating conditions similar to slavery
Black Codes
This test was used to unfairly deny African Americans the right to vote by making them read or interpret confusing documents
Literacy test