Difficulties for Freed Slaves

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

• a legal group who passed laws to restrict the freedom of African Americans

• a hate group that did not believe Black people should have the same rights as White people

• a peace group established by Congress to help former slaves have a better life

• a southern group who passed a new constitution in Tennessee

How did the Ku Klux Klan try to achieve their goals?

• by opening schools

• by passing new laws

• by using vigilante justice

• by trying to overturn the black codes

How did the black codes affect African Americans?

• They were denied basic freedoms.

• They were forced to leave the state.

• They were given an education.

• They were allowed to vote.

How did the end of Reconstruction impact Tennessee’s African American elected officials?

• They helped pass Jim Crow laws to stop violence against African Americans.

• They were joined by more elected African Americans because the black codes passed.

• They were driven out of office by angry White people.

• They started the Freedmen’s Bureau to help African Americans.

The purpose of this political cartoon was to make a statement about which practice or concept?

• Tennessee Constitution of 1870

• U.S. Reconstruction

• vigilante justice

• segregation

Decide whether each phrase describes Jim Crow laws.

• forced African Americans to use different public facilities than White people

• did not allow education for freedmen

• forced African Americans students to go to different schools than White students

• discriminated against African Americans

Decide whether each phrase describes black codes and Jim Crow laws.

• discriminated against African Americans

• did not allow education for freedm

• forced African Americans to use different public facilities than White people

• passed right after the Civil War

• required African American men to work