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 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

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 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 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

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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