Texas Reconstruction

What were the 'black codes'?

• laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
• laws protecting the newly found rights of freed African Americans
• another term for the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
• secret laws instituted by the Ku Klux Klan

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery
• Gave African American men the right to vote
• defined national citizenship and forbade the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
• made it illegal for any state to secede

What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery would be abolished
• The rights of the freed people would be protected
• African American could vote
• Women could vote

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery is abolished
• Freed African Americans' rights are protected
• African American men can vote
• Women can vote

_____ were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction.

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Vigilantes
• Scoundrels

Are Carpetbaggers from the North or the South?

• North
• South

What does Juneteenth commemorate?

• The end of slavery in Texas
• The beginning of summer in Texas
• The beginning of Reconstruction in Texas
• The end of the Civil War in Texas

Worked to educate African Americans and register them to vote.

• Freedman's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Sharecroppers

• Carpetbaggers

_______________________was Texas' first black senator. (Matthew Gaines-Texas' First Black Senator).

• Chip Gaines

• Duke Gaines

• Matthew Gaines

• 'Aint-no-gaines

After the Civil War, many freed people set out to own their own land, but ended up living in small communities on what?

• unused land
• former plantation land
• on land granted to them by US government