Black Power in Dixie

This amendment of the constitution gave freedman's equal protection of the law

• The 13th amendment

• The 15th amendment

• The Freedman's Bureau

• The 14th amendment

The Federal Government's power is distributed among

• All States in the United States of America

• The Capitol Only

• Some important states in America

• Washington DC

Thaddeus Stevens believed that the best way to help freedmen was by

• Deportation to Africa

• Giving them 40 acres and a mule

• Making them American citizens

• Let them be or "let him alone"

This institution allowed for Africans to receive federal aid to help with their basic needs

• The Federal Government

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Welfare

Some of the black struggles which prevented social mobility for freedmen during reconstruction was (3 answers)

• The Senate refused to provide homes and land.

• The creation of the Black Codes

• White Hostility

• Federal officials reclaimed land which was given temporarily

In the United States Government, power is divided in three branches (3 answers)

• Executive

• Legislative

• Federal

• Judicial

• The White House

Social Mobility means that

• People move and socialize with others

• People is able to move from one social class to another

• People are not able to improve their social class

The purpose of the Black Codes was to

• To guide freedmen to a successful life

• Create laws which could govern freedmen

• Re stablish slavery under another name

These were policies aligned with the Black Codes (3 answers)

• Preaching was allowed

• Blacks could only work on farming

• Vagrancy/homelessness was a crime

• Being unemployed or quitting a job was a crime

One of the reasons why the sharecropping system didn't work to improve the life of freedmen was because (2 answers)

• The sharecropper had to resort to credit to provide their basic needs

• Debt continued to increase every year

• The work was too hard