Reconstruction Test

The Black Codes

• Kept former slaves from owning guns

• Restricted job opportunities for former slaves

• Made it illegal for former slaves to not have a job

• Made former slaves into masters

10% of voters for each state had to take an oath to rejoin the Union

Had to adopt a new Constitution abolishing slavery

• Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Johnson

Did not want to punish the South

States had to uphold the 13th Amendment

• Lincoln

• Johnson

• Radical Republicans

Wanted to punish the South for the Civil War

Divided the south into 5 military districts

Enacted the 14th Amendments

• Radical Republicans

• Lincoln

• Johnson

Neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall exist except as a punishment for a crime within the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

All persons born in the US are citizens of the US. No state shall make or enforce any law that takes away any persons right to life, liberty, or property without due process.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Those that had the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867 and their descendants would be exempt from recently enacted educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Taxes.

• Eight Box Law

• Literacy Clause/Test

Amendment to the US Constitution abolishing and prohibiting slavery.

• Reconstruction

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Special laws passed by southern state governments immediately after the Civil War. They were designed to control former slaves, and to subvert the intent of the 13th Amendment.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment.

• 15th Amendment.

• Black Codes