Vocab
What is a society focused on crops and livestock instead of industry?
Agrarian Society
What happened that resulted in the call for a new constitutional convention?
The democrats had the majority
Why was the government trying to pay for two education systems?
Schools were segregated
What could happen to African Americans who ran away from their employers?
Federal soldiers could bring them back
The living conditions of African Americans improved after they were emancipated. True or False.
False
What means freed from enslavement?
Emancipated
What was required for men to vote?
They had to pay poll tax
What happened to public education in Alabama during the Civil War?
It stopped almost entirely
How many years would it take for segregation to be outlawed in the United States?
almost 100
What is suffrage?
the right to vote
What are farmers who did not own their own land and farmed on someone else’s land called?
Sharecroppers
What was not part of the new constitution?
Changed voting rights for African Americans
Where did the first American school open?
Boston, MA
What was another name for racially-based laws?
Black Codes
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
What means the right to vote?
Suffrage
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Name one reason how the first schools in America are different than the schools today?
There was only one teacher
Children were required to learn Greek and Latin
School houses were one room
In what section of the Constitution does it say you have to be both male and white to vote?
4
What amendment gave citizenship to formerly enslaved people?
14th
What means to separate the whites from the blacks?
Segregation
It declared that the US wanted to be independent of England
Today, how does the United States show that they believe education is important?
Public schools are available for all students at no cost
What day(s) did African Americans have off?
Sundays
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th