Reconstruction

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners.

• Freedman's Bureau Laws

• Reconstruction Acts

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

• Sharecroppers

After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if

• he would create a new Freedmen's Bureau

• he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south

• he would allow African Africans full rights in the North only

• he created pro-cotton legislation in Congress

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Bureau

• Reconstruction

What was the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• Segregation was illegal in the U.S.

• African Americans would have to give up the Freedmen's Bureau

• Segregation was legal in the U.S.

• African Americans could have schools, but not equal water fountains.

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• African American families divided by slavery were reunited.

• Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.

• African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.

• Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.

What do the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 have in common?

• They were efforts by Congress to solve economic problems in the South.

• They were laws President Andrew Johnson supported to punish south slave owners.

• They were ways Congress sought to guarantee blacks the full rights of citizenship.

• They were attempts by President Abraham Lincoln to end regional and racial divisions.

Which term refers to the post-Civil War agriculture system where a property owner supplied acreage, tools, and seed to a landless farmer, who then gave the owner a percentage of all he grew?

• emancipation

• sharecropping

• free enterprise

• market economy