Bell Work Describe this political cartoon and what it is saying Reconstruction Amendments Reconstruction bringing the South Confederacy back into the Union US after the Civil War 13 th ID: 572917
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Reconstruction Era
Bell Work
Describe this political cartoon and what it is saying
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Reconstruction AmendmentsReconstruction= bringing the South (Confederacy) back into the Union (U.S) after the Civil War13th
Amendment- abolished slavery in 186514th Amendment- guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the United States, including African Americans
15th Amendment
- no male citizen could be denied the right to vote on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”Slide4
Ku Klux KlanUsed terror and violence against African Americans and their white supporters to suppress their new rights
their members included planters, merchants, and poor white farmerssmall number of actual members, but their goals were supported by manymain target was African Americans(local leaders & wealthy AA)
KKK made threats, burned houses, beat: teachers, women, men and much worseSlide5
Black CodesLaws designed to keep freedmen in a slave like condition and to give planters a supply of cheap laborUsed in former Confederate statesMeant to limit African Americans’ rights
prevent them from owning landrestrict their employment opportunitiesSlide6
Jim Crow LawsCreated to keep blacks and whites separated and to restrict African Americans from votingPoll tax- required voters to pay a tax to vote ($1-$2), which few African Americans could afford
Literacy tests- required voters to pass a reading test before registering to vote, again African Americans had been denied education while slaves so few could pass the testsGrandfather clause- allowed a person to vote as long as their ancestors voted before 1866, of course the ancestors of black freedmen did not vote before 1866 but whites did.Slide7
Closing BellWhich of the things we discussed today do you think was the most harmful to African Americans becoming true citizens?