Amendments
Amendment
How were African Americans treated after slavery ended?
Unfairly
Negative opinions that are not based on facts
Prejudices
How did Freedmen's Schools help African Americans?
Provided them education
Which amendment gave citizenship to any person born in the United States?
14th
What happened to the banks?
They closed
What federal government agency provided food, medical care, and education to freed African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
Name 2 ways railroads helped the economy
Grow businesses, agriculture, industry, transportation, made cities more diverse, made small towns grow into big cities, made Virginia become more interconnected
Which 3 amendments were designed to help rebuild the country?
13th, 14th, and 15th
Name 3 things that were destroyed..
Railroads, bridges, farms, homes, and businesses
What is renting land and paying the owner with crops?
Sharecropping
Railroads, technology, factories, industry, manufacturing, small towns turned into big cities
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th
What happened to the money after the Civil War?
Unfair difference in the treatment of people
Discrimination
Jim Crow Laws
Which amendment forbade any state from denying the vote to anyone on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude?
15th
When African Americans were freed what did they need?
Housing, education, food, and medical care
Separation of people based on race
Segregation
Which court case ruled that separate, but equal segregation laws were allowed?
Plessy v. Ferguson