Reconstruction
What Era could you find a Scalawag or Carpetbagger in?
Reconstruction Era
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment
Which amendment gave all men, regardless of race, the right to vote?
15th amendment
Which of the following is NOT a topic of the Reconstruction Era?
- 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
- Johnson being impeached
- Division of the South into military districts
- Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party
TRUE or FALSE:
All people, including women, could vote under the 15th amendment.
FALSE - women couldn't vote until the passage of the 19th amendment
Which amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States?
14th amendment
What amendment did Lincoln promote by outlawing slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation?
13th amendment
What provided food, clothes AND education to freed blacks?
Freedmen's Bureau
Blacks had a significant impact on the election of Republicans in the South due to which amendment?
15th amendment
What was one black code that was enacted by the South after the Civil War?
- White's couldn't marry blacks
- Couldn't own guns or property
- Segregation in bathrooms, cemeteries, jobs, and other public places
- Couldn't vote
- Had to have a job, or they would be thrown into jail and forced to work
In order to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, what did the government send to the South?
The military
What two requirements did Africans have to meet in order to vote be eligible to vote under the 15th amendment?
- Pay a tax
- Pass a literacy test
Many blacks became sharecroppers after the passage of which amendment?
13th
What limited the rights of freed blacks?
Black codes
Describe sharecropping and why it was referred to as a new form of economic slavery:
Sharecropping is where a renter would rent the land, grow crops, sell the crops, and then pay the landowner back with the profit he made (if he ever did..... they usually didn't make a profit)
It kept the tenants/renters in debt to landowners
Which amendment was passed after the Black Codes were enacted in Southern states after the Civil War?
14th amendment
Poll taxes & literacy tests were implemented in the South to try and weaken which amendment?
15th amendment
What system kept renters in debt to landowners?
Sharecropping