Reconstruction

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What was segregation?

• equal treatment for all people

• the forced separation of races

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people

• the forced separation of races

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• equal treatment for all people

• laws that made segregation legal

• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• the period of time after the Civil War

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation

• Free Food Bureau

• Jobs and Education Bureau

• Freedman's Bureau

Laws that required the African-Americans be separated from white in public places are...

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Grandfather Codes

• Integration Laws

System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented

• Family-Farming

• Sharecropping

• Groupcropping

• Split-Farming

Why did sharecroppers remain poor?

• The South flooded during Reconstrucion

• They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt

• The sun never shone on crops

• Animals ate all the crops