White supremacy exit ticket

Southern states passed black codes in order to:

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic party

After the Civil War, southern states adopted black codes to

• punish plantation owners for their use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• limit the impact of the 13th amendment

What was one long term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions

• many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

• many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

• landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

How were prisons used to continue slavery without breaking the law of the 13th amendment?

• The 13th amendment allows for the South to pass black codes that put black americans in jail

• Incarcerated people can still work without being paid, so the South began to put black Americans in prison and make them work

• The South just ignored the 13th amendment and continued to make their slaves work

How is white supremacy still perpetuated in the U.S. today?

• Black Americans are still put in jail at higher rates than anyone else, even when they are committing the same crimes as white people

• Black Americans still face higher rates of poverty than white people

• Black Americans still face racism and prejudice from white people

• All of the above