The 13th Amendment
This amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These were Southern laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans after slavery ended.
What are Black Codes?
This system had freed people farming for a share of crops.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This group helped freed slaves with food, jobs, and schools.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
He was president during the Civil War and supported the 13th Amendment.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These documents were required by Black Codes to prove employment.
What are labor contracts?
This kept many sharecroppers poor.
What is debt?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was a goal for many African Americans after slavery.
What is equal rights?
This was the main purpose of the 13th Amendment.
What is to abolish slavery?
This could happen to African Americans who were unemployed under Black Codes.
What is they were arrested?
This system let people rent land for cash.
What is tenant farming?
These were still denied to African Americans after slavery ended.
What are equal rights?
This formerly enslaved man became a powerful speaker, writer, and leader who fought for the rights of African Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This phrase in the 13th Amendment allowed slavery to continue as punishment.
What is “except as a punishment for a crime”?
This was the main effect Black Codes had on freed African Americans.
What is they limited their freedom?
This was when prisoners were rented out for work.
What is convict leasing?
These were used to keep Black people from voting.
What are literacy tests?
Black people did this to fight unfair laws.
What is organized communities?
This is why the 13th Amendment was needed even after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is it made slavery illegal everywhere?
These are ways Black Codes were like slavery.
What is forced labor and no rights?
Sharecropping was called this by some historians.
What is slavery by another name?
This is why new rights weren’t always protected.
What is Southern resistance?
This is how Black people used politics to gain power.
What is voting?