U10: 'Black Codes'

Match the following Reconstruction Amendments to their correct description.

(NO LOVE Strategy)

• 13th Amendment

• gave the right to vote to all men; no matter the race, color, etc.

• 15th Amendment

• abolished & outlawed slavery in the United States.

• 14th Amendment

• granted equal citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to ----

• limit the effects of Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factor jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party

Which aspect of society was affected by these requirements?

• U.S. citizens' ability to take out loans

• U.S. citizens' right to vote in elections

• U.S. citizens' option to join the military

• U.S. citizens' choice to operate a business

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplied from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to white landlords

Which action highlights an accomplishment of the Reconstruction Era Freedmen’s Bureau?

• Offering an alternate route to full citizenship for newly freed enslaved people

• Granting voting rights to newly freed enslaved people

• Providing educational opportunities for newly freed enslaved people

• Building factories to provide jobs for newly freed enslaved people