Reconstruction/Westward Expansion

Why was the sharecropping system developed in the South after the Civil War?

• the weather was awesome in the South

• land was inexpensive so landowners had large farms

• former slave owners needed cheap labor to farm the land

• farming was easy in the South

The 13th Amendment

• gave people the right to vote

• freed all enslaved peoples

• made slavery legal

• enforced segregation

The 14th Amendment

• made all formerly enslaved people citizens

• freed enslaved peoples

• allowed citizens to vote

• freed Native Americans

The 15th Amendment

• gave all citizens the right to vote

• freed enslaved people in the South

• increased rights for Native Americans

• made slavery legal again

The 14th and 15th Amendments

• increased rights for African Americans

• made everyone in the United States equal

• increased rights for Native Americans

• split America into two different countries

Two ways which HURT African Americans right to vote:

• Poll taxes and literacy tests

• Dawes and Homestead Acts

• Black Codes and Freedman's Bureau

• 14th and 15th Amendments

Many states in the South wrote laws called Black Codes to

• to stop racism in the South

• restrict the rights of formerly enslaved people

• to help freed people find homes

• give land and money to freed people

After the Civil War, sharecropping was a system in

• Valley Stream

• the Southern states

• the Northern states

• Hawaii

Which amendment officially brought an end to slavery in the United States?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

What agency was created by the U.S. government to HELP African Americans after slavery ended?

• KKK

• Segregation

• the 19th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau