Presidential Reconstruction

"40 acres and a mule" was a way to

• give freed slaves land to build buildings and give transportation

• pay freed slaves for years of unpaid labor

• to give freed slaves a job to do

Freedmen were desperate to be able to get

• education and land

• work and movie theaters

• a car and a house

__________ were in charge of Congress in the South.

• white wealthy teachers

• black freed slaves

• white wealthy planters

laws passed to control former slaves are called

• freedman codes

• slave codes

• black codes

Freedmen did NOT have the right to ______

• marry

• vote

• own property

Freedmen were required to __________. If not they could be arrested and hired out to planters.

• work

• shower

• run for long periods of time

Most codes called for separation of blacks and whites in public places.

What is another word for separation?

• seasoned

• company

• segregation

Black children were _______________ to attend public schools.

• allowed

• not allowed

• asked to

The codes __________ freedmen to farmwork or jobs requiring few skills.

• limited

• did not limit

• unrestricted