Black codes, freedmens bureau, KKK

Reconstruction:
Black Codes, Freedmen’s Bureau,

and the KKK

•Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
promoted segregation and
disenfranchisement (take away
rights)

•These state and local laws limited the
effectiveness of the 14th and 15th
Amendments and remained until
1964

• Southern legislatures

adopted Black Codes
which:

• prohibited African

Americans from renting or
borrowing money to buy
land

• Southern legislatures

adopted Black Codes
which:

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• placed freedmen in a form

of semi-bondage by forcing
them to sign work contracts

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​• Southern legislatures adopted Black Codes
which:
• placed freedmen in a form of semi-bondage by forcing
them to sign work contracts

• Prohibited African Americans from testifying against whites in court

• Southern legislatures

adopted Black Codes
which:

•
•
• prohibited African

Americans from testifying
against whites in court

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Freedmen’s Bureau

​Freedmen’s Bureau
It did the following:
• Helped freedmen find separated
family members

• Help teach freedmen to read and write

• Acted as legal advocates for the freedmen

Freedmen’s Bureau
•Critics believed it prevented
the freedmen from learning
how to be independent by
giving them too much
assistance

•Funding cuts and the rise of the
Ku Klux Klan severely
weakened the agency

Freedmen’s Bureau

• The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a

white supremacy group who wanted to intimidate former slaves.

• Represented the ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers

• Disrupted Reconstruction as much as they could.
• Opposed Republicans, carpetbaggers, scalawags, & freedmen.

Rise of KKK

Rise of KKK

​KKK in the South:
• Sought to eliminate the Republican Party in the South by intimidating voters.

• Wanted to keep black people as submissive laborers.

• Planted burning crosses on the yards of their victims & tortured kidnapped, or murdered them.

• Prosperous blacks, carpetbaggers, and scalawags became their victims.

The Federal Response
• The Enforcement Act of 1870

banned the use of terror, force, or
bribery to prevent people from
voting.

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The Federal Response
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• Other laws banned the KKK and

used the military to protect voters
and voting places.

• As federal troops withdrew from

the South, black suffrage all but
ended.

The Federal Response
• The Enforcement Act of 1870

banned the use of terror, force, or
bribery to prevent people from
voting.

•
• As federal troops withdrew from

the South, black suffrage all but
ended.

Multiple Choice

This person became President after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated:

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

Multiple Choice

Before the Civil War ended, Union Generals had decided to give abandoned plantation lands in southeastern South Carolina and Georgia to:

• Freedmen

• Northern land speculators

• Poor white farmers

• Union soldiers

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave ex-slaves citizenship?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War, this action limited economic opportunities for ex-slaves:

• Use of the sharecropping system

• Ratification of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Creation of Military Districts

Multiple Choice

How did Hayes' election in 1876 help bring Reconstruction to an end?

• The Freedmen's Bureau took on a larger role in Southern states.

• Ex-slaves secured full political and civil rights.

• Hayes vetoed all Reconstruction legislation.

• Federal troops were removed from the south.

Multiple Choice

Southern states tried to limit freedmens' opportunities to vote by:

• Poll taxes

• Literacy tests

• Shooting ex-slaves attempting to vote

• A and B

Multiple Choice

A failure of Reconstruction that occurred socially was the emergence of this hate group that specifically terrorized African Americans and their white allies.

• Confederates

• Antifa

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

Multiple Choice

Booker T. Washington led the Tuskegee Institute which was established to educate African Americans and to exercise their citizenship.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which amendment ensure African Americans the right to vote?

• 19th

• 12th

• 15th

• 1st

Multiple Choice

A _______ was a label given to Northerners that moved to the South to assist the freedmen or improve their economic situation.

• Republican

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Democrat

• Carpetbagger

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