Emancipation & Freedom
This concept describes the transition from slavery to freedom following the Civil War.
what is emancipation?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
These states had the highest number of Black officeholders during Reconstruction.
What are South Carolina and Mississippi?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people transition to freedom.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This system forced freedpeople into cycles of debt and unfair contracts.
What is sharecropping?
These laws restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This document began freeing enslaved people in Confederate states in 1863.
what is the emancipation proclamation?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Approximately this many Black officeholders served during Reconstruction.
What is about 2,000?
This was a major service provided by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
What is establishing schools?
This policy promised “40 acres and a mule” to freedpeople.
What is Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 15?
These laws prevented African Americans from voting or holding office
What are Black Codes?
This was a key challenge freedpeople faced immediately after the war.
What are adjusting to freedom and lack of resources?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This development made Black political participation possible.
What is Reconstruction legislation/amendments?
These ads were placed by freedpeople searching for lost relatives.
What are family reunification ads?
This happened to most of the land given to freedpeople.
What is it was returned to former enslavers?
This was the main goal of Black Codes.
What is limiting African American freedom and rights?
This idea emphasized African Americans pushing forward despite oppression, as seen in Dunbar’s poem.
What is perseverance and progress?
This was the main goal of African American petitions in 1865.
What is gaining suffrage (voting rights)?
These individuals were elected to government positions during Reconstruction.
Who are African American legislators?
These rules required formerly enslaved couples to legally formalize marriages.
What are Freedmen’s Bureau marriage regulations?
These contracts required freedpeople to work land for a share of crops.
What are sharecropping contracts?
This system replaced slavery with forced labor through legal loopholes.
What is convict leasing? (or labor control systems)
This amendment most directly enabled Black men to hold political office during Reconstruction.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This was a major outcome of Black political participation during Reconstruction.
What is increased representation and policy influence?
These sources show this important priority of freedpeople after the war.
What is rebuilding family bonds?
This explains the shift from land ownership hopes to sharecropping reality.
What is the failure of land redistribution?
This continuity shows that despite emancipation, this remained limited.
What is African American political power?