Amendments Explained
This amendment officially ended slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group is known for killing and torturing African-Americans.
What is Ku Klux Klan?
Many formerly enslaved people lived in this type of farming system.
What is sharecropping?
This group of young often worked long hours in factories and mines for very low pay.
Who were child laborers?
Many immigrants came to the United States from this country to escape the potato famine.
What is Ireland?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the freedoms of formerly enslaved African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This federal agency, created in 1865, provided food, housing, medical care, and education to formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These dangerous factory conditions included poor ventilation, unsafe machinery, and frequent injuries.
What were hazardous working conditions?
This late-19th-century processing center in New York Harbor became a symbol of hope and hardship for immigrants arriving.
What is Ellis Island?
This amendment prohibited denying a citizen’s right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, but allowed some states to use literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is the 15th Amendment?
One common feature of the Black Codes required African Americans to sign yearly labor contracts or face penalties such as fines or forced labor if they were at a place they weren't supposed to be at under this legal practice.
What is vagrancy?
Passed by Southern states, these laws restricted the movement, labor, and living conditions of African Americans despite the end of slavery.
What are Black Codes?
This 19th-century British law limited working hours and improved safety standards in factories, especially for women and children.
What was the Factory Act?
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe often settled in urban neighborhoods known by this term, where poor living conditions led to calls for reform.
What are tenements?