Reconstruction and the West

What is the 13th Amendment?

• Abolition of slavery

• Free Speech

• Freedom of religion

• Speedy public trial by Jury

What is the 14th Amendment?

• Abolition of slavery

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• The right to vote

• Freedom of religion

What is the 15th Amendment (1870)?

• Freedom og religion

• Speedy public trial by jury

• Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)

• You do not need to attend school

What is Freedmen's Bureau?

• 1865 - An agency set up to make sure students attend school

• 1865 - An agency set up to make sure slave owners received funding to buy more slaves

• 1865 - An agency set up to make sure that parents had to take care of their children

• 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It provided food and clothing to formerly enslaved people, set up schools and helped people get jobs.

Who was the Ku Klux Klan?

• Founded in the 1860's in the south; meant to assist slave gain their freedom

• founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence.

• Founded in the 1860's in the south; meant to relocate slave he required housing

• Founded in the 1860's in the south; meant to provided health care to slaver who were sick

What were literacy tests and poll taxes?

• Helped provide African American men obtain the right to vote

• 14th amendment

• Ways that government tried to prevent African-American men from voting (15th amendment)

• 16th amendment

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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• Povented segregation in publicly owned facilities.

• Provide food for those who are hungry

• Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."

Jim Crow Laws

• Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

• Laws designed to assist African Americans during segregation

• Laws designed to enforce segregation of women

• Laws designed to enforce the proper treatment of birds

What is a Sharecropping System?

• When a landowner does not allow others to work their land

• Dominant agricultural model in the post-Civil War South. Is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop).

• When a landowner tries to buy as much land as possible

• When a landowner sells his land for a large profit.

What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked washington to Minnesota

• Completed in 1869 at Promontory, it linked Connecticut to Vermont, revolutionizing transportation in the west

• Completed in 1869 at Promontory, it linked railroads from Florida to New York

• Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west.