End of Reconstruction

The 13th amendment said...

• Everyone born in the US are citizens and have equal protection under the law.

• All men have the right to vote.

• No slavery is allowed.

The 14th amendment said...

• Everyone born in the US are citizens and have equal protection under the law.

• All men have the right to vote.

• No slavery is allowed.

The 15th amendment said...

• Everyone born in the US are citizens and have equal protection under the law.

• All men have the right to vote.

• No slavery is allowed.

Forcing someone to work went against which amendment?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Black Codes (laws only for black people) went against which amendment?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Poll taxes (making people pay to vote) went against which amendment?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What happened in the Compromise of 1877?

• Samuel Tilden won the popular vote so the republicans let him be president.

• Rutherford Hays gets to be president if he promises to remove troops from the South.

• The decide to start sharecropping as long as their is no slavery.

How does removing the troops in the south impact the country?

• The country is finally healing and working together and the African American's are being treated equally.

• Everything stays the exact same.

• No one is paying attention to how the African Americans are being treated so they are treated unfairly.

What did Homer Plessy do?

• He got in a fight with a white person who said he was better.

• He was a justice on the Supreme Court.

• Sat in the white train car even though he was technically African American.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that separated everything African Americans could use and go to from everything white Americans could use and go to.

• Law that were created by Jim Crow to help American improve as a country.

• Laws that make sure everything was equal for African Americans and white Americans.