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Amendments
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Scalawags/Carpetbaggers
Facts
100
This amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
100
This was the time period Freedmen's Bureau was created.
What is the Reconstruction period?
100
This region of the United States created "Black Codes."
What is the Southern region?
100
TRUE or FALSE. Carpetbaggers hated the idea of freed slaves.
What is FALSE?
100

What were the two main political parties of the 1870s?

Democrats and Republicans

200
This group was most effected by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.
What is African Americans?
200
This is the year Freedmen's Bureau was created.
What is 1865?
200
TRUE or FALSE. "Black Codes" helped African Americans get better jobs and schools.
What is FALSE?
200
These are Carpetbaggers.
What is businessmen or politician who went to the South to see if Federal laws were carried out?
200

What is a sharecropper?

A former slave who rented land and would share the crops picked with the land owner.

300

This is the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.

to guarantee equal protection under the law for all former enslaved people

300
This is the purpose of Freedmen's Bureau.
What is to help slaves build schools, and help slaves find jobs?
300

This was the purpose of "Black Codes."

To restrict and control African Americans

300
These are Scalawags.
What is white southern who support the Reconstruction process?
300

What does disenfranchise mean?

To take away the right to vote

400
This is the purpose and year of the 13th amendment.
What is to make slavery illegal in the United States? What is 1865?
400
This is the founder of Freedmen's Bureau. This group created Freedmen's Bureau.
What is Abraham Lincoln? What is Congress?
400

Why were the Black Codes similar to old slave codes?

The South wanted to maintain control over the African Americans

400

What was the role of scalawags and carpetbaggers during the reconstruction in the South?

 To shape new governments in the South

400
The Ku Klux Klan used (blank) to get their message across about slavery.
What is violence?
500
This amendment helped African Americans become citizens. Why?
What is the 14th amendment? What is because they were born in the United States?
500

Who benefited from the Freedmen's Bureau?

Former enslaved people and poor, displaced Whites

500
These were the first two Southern states that enacted the "Black Codes."
What is Mississippi and South Carolina?
500
This group of people target Scalawags and Carpetbaggers.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
This southerner killed Abraham Lincoln.
What is John Wilkes Booth?