⚖️ Amendments & Rights
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Jim Crow Laws enforced this in the South.
What is racial segregation?
This president was assassinated in 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the Period in United States history that followed the American Civil Wa
Reconstruction
This restriction of African Americans, lasted from the 1870s until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The 14th Amendment guaranteed this to all citizens, regardless of race.
What is citizenship and equal protection under the law?
African Americans not being allowed to own property and being to forced labor contracts was legal through these laws.
What is Black Codes?
These were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with the Republican Party.
What are Scalawags?
This organization created schools for African American children after 1865.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
On this date (June 19, 1865), enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free. Texas celebrates the day enslaved people in this state learned they were free.
Juneteenth
The 15th Amendment protected voting rights regardless of this.
What is race?
The barrier to voting that caused people to take reading and writing exams was called?
Literacy Test
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation and was later assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln
Name one way the Freedmen's Bureau helped formerly enslaved people.
What is: created schools / provided food / provided medical care / helped negotiate labor contracts / provided legal aid?
Lincoln's election in 1860 led to this action by Southern states.
What is secession?
Name all three amendments that guaranteed rights to African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
The barrier to voting that caused people to pay a fee was called?
Poll Taxes
These were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This type of institution was established by the Freedmen's Bureau to educate formerly enslaved children and adults
Schools and Universities
When was Lincoln assassinated?
1865
Explain how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments changed the rights of African Americans and why they were important.
What is: The 13th freed enslaved people, the 14th granted citizenship and equal protection, and the 15th protected voting rights? These amendments set the legal foundation for civil rights.
Explain how Black Codes that restricted property ownership affected formerly enslaved people's ability to build wealth.
What is: They prevented African Americans from gaining economic independence and building wealth, keeping them economically dependent on white landowners?
These Republicans wanted strict Reconstruction policies and full rights for African Americans.
What are Radical Republicans?
Explain how sharecropping became a new form of economic control after slavery was abolished.
Formerly enslaved people couldn't own land, so they had to work on white-owned farms for a share of the crop, but often ended up in debt and remained dependent on landowners?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?