Amendments
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th
What happened to the money after the Civil War?
What is renting land and paying the owner with crops?
Sharecropping
Which court case ruled that separate, but equal segregation laws were allowed?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which amendment gave citizenship to any person born in the United States?
14th
What happened to the banks?
They closed
What federal government agency provided food, medical care, and education to freed African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
Which 3 amendments were designed to help rebuild the country?
13th, 14th, and 15th
Name 3 things that were destroyed..
Railroads, bridges, farms, homes, and businesses
Unfair difference in the treatment of people
Discrimination
Railroads, technology, factories, industry, manufacturing, small towns turned into big cities
Which amendment forbade any state from denying the vote to anyone on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude?
15th
When African Americans were freed what did they need?
Housing, education, food, and medical care
Separation of people based on race
Segregation
Who was the first African American leader elected to the U.S. Congress?
John Mercer Langston
What were the changes made to the Constitution during Reconstruction called?
Amendments
What practices that were established to discriminate against African Americans and limit their rights?
Black Codes
Negative opinions that are not based on facts
Prejudices
How did Freedmen's Schools help African Americans?