WOMS300- The Reconstruction Period

Question 1

Loyalty Oath

Answer 1

Men adn Women in the south had to sign documents saying they would stay in the union

Question 2

Former Slave Women

Answer 2

-Migrated with family
-Widows
-Officially married their husbands
-Were seeking education and literacy
-Growth in churches regarding female black women
-Female black leaders
-Occupations included:
Seamstress, cooks, laundry, Nurses
Growth in black women becoming teachers

Question 3

Freedmen Bureau

Answer 3

-Offered money and land to former slaves
-encouraged marraige

Question 4

The 13th Admendment

Answer 4

Ends Slavery

Question 5

The 14th Admendment

Answer 5

-Gave citizenship to any person born in the US
-put male into the consitution for the first time

Question 6

Sharecropping

Answer 6

-Similar to slavery
-Sign a contract for a year
-Contract covered
-Labor conditions
-Housing
-Families would be working together on crops
-The family had access to a certain percentage of what was produced
-Could be arrested for trying to get out of contract
-There could be taxes and fees

Question 7

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 7

Laws design to segregate and discriminate
Made segregation law
“Black codes “
Restricted:
-Curfew
-Marriage
-Voting
-Literacy test
-Fees to vote

Question 8

The American Equal Rights Association

Answer 8

goal : help black individuals recieve equal rights for black people
-was divided on who should get the right the vote (women and men)
members:
Sojourner Truth, Fredrick D, Scanton

Question 9

National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA)

Answer 9

goal: get women to be the next group of people to be able to vote
-made of middle class women (white prob)
-focused on broad women’s rights
-sided with populations who were against black male voting rights

Question 10

American Women’s Suffrage ASsociation

Answer 10

-Leader: Lucy Stone
-focus: Women voting rights
-wanted the word male out of the constitution
-Formed the Women’s Journal
-male and female members
-Charlotte Forten- made sure black women would vote along with white women

Question 11

Victoria and Tennesse Woodhull

Answer 11

-attempted to use the 14th admendment to give women the right to vote
-tried to vote but was arrested
-made publishments weekly on the right to vote

Question 12

Sojourner Truther

Answer 12

-attempted to vote but kicked out
-advocate for women’s right to vote

Question 13

The 16th Admendment

Answer 13

-caused some states to allow women to vote
-tax payers can vote