3/15 quiz reconstruction Flashcards

1
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what was share cropping?

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freed men rented a portion of plantation land and gave an amount of harvest back to the plantation owner as rent.

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2
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what was the 13th amendment?

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abolished slavery

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3
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what was the 14th amendment?

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gave blacks citizen rights and protection under the law

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4
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what was the 15th amendment?

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prohibits discrimination in voting rights based on “race color or previous condition of servitude”

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5
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what were the jim crow laws?

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laws that restricted the rights of African Americans

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6
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when were the 14th 13th and 15th amendments passed?

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1860-1870

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7
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what were three things blacks couldn’t do because of the black codes?

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own a house, go into town, have public meetings, bear arms

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8
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what did the emancipation proclamation do?

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freed slaves in all rebellious states

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what was the Plessy v.s. Ferguson case?

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Homer Plessy sat in a “white only” car (on a train)and refused to move. he was arrested and tried.

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what was the result of Plessy v.s. Ferguson?

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“separate but equal”

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what was Plessys claim ?

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he was denied equal protection under the law

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12
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what was the Williams v.s. Mississippi case ?

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challenged the literacy requirement to vote

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13
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what was the Cumming V.S. the board of education of Richmond County rulling?

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federal gov. cannot prevent segregation in local school facilities because education is local not federal issue

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14
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name three (3) jim crow laws

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Poll tax, Segregation, Literacy test for voting

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15
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who wrote the “Black codes”?

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People who didnt want african americans to have equal rights (“KKK” white supremacist groups)

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16
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why was education important to freed slaves during reconstruction?

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so they could get farther in life OR pass literacy test

17
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now that the African Americans are free what were they able to do? (before Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes)

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get married, parades, work in the gov. join army, own a house, hold jobs that they were never going to have as a slave (teacher, shop owner)