The Amendments
All men from the North and the South could vote after this amendment was ratified.
What is the 15th Amendment
Many Southerners were faced with this problem after the Civil War.
What is they lived in poverty.
What happened to African American men during Reconstruction that prevented them from voting?
What is Federal troops were removed and they lost protection.
Slavery was abolished after this amendment was ratified.
What is the 13th Amendment
These people were often in debt and had to keep working for the landlord.
Sharecropppers.
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation of whites and African Americans in public places was legal. True or False?
What is True.
What was the main purpose of the 14th Amendment?
What is it guaranteed rights for all citizens of the United States.
A farming system where workers give a portion of their crop to landowners.
What is sharecropping.
What were the "Black Codes" ?
Laws passed in Southern states to keep African Americans in a virtual state of slavery.
These amendments addressed issues that contributed to the Civil War.
What are the 13th,14th,and 15th Amendments
How did most Southerners make a living after the Civil War?
What is farming.
What was the main challenge that the Freedmen's Bureau faced?
Many white Southerners resisted their efforts.
This amendment ensured that state governments treated all people fairly.
What is the 14th Amendment.
Most sharecroppers eventually managed to get out of debt. True or False?
What is False.
What is to prevent African American men from voting.