Chapter 27 & 28 TN Constitutional Convention of 1870

Why did TN need a Constitutional Convention after the Civil War?

• All former Confederate states had to ban slavery to rejoin the Union.

• All former Confederate states had to ban segregation to rejoin the Union.

• All former Confederate states had to pay taxes to rejoin the Union.

• All former Confederate states had to ban voting.

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

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Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

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What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

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Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South

• Racial Rules

• Lincoln Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

Which of the following does not describe the Ku Klux Klan?

• They only targeted former slaves and not people who helped former slaves.

• It was founded by former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee.

• It grew in response to the Reconstruction Amendments.

• They tried to scare and even attacked people they disagreed with.

What were the black codes?

• A set of laws that placed limits on the freedom of African Americans.

• A secret code used by African Americans to find the best opportunities available in the South.

• A secret code used by African Americans to travel on the Underground Railroad.

• A set of laws that gave freedom to all African Americans.

laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

•  Sovereign
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Juneteenth
• Black Codes

a secret group of white men that used violence and terror against African Americans 

• Radical Republicans
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Scalawags

The executive order that declared enslaved persons in the Confederate states were free 

• Freedman 
• Reconstruction
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Black Codes