Lesson 23 - The United States Through Industrialism

Vocabulary: impeach

accuse or charge a government official with improper behavior

Reconstruction: Did Andrew Johnson support the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

No

Reconstruction: Did Andrew Johnson support the Fourteenth Amendment?

No

Freedmen’s Bureau: What kind of aid/help did the Bureau provide?

The Bureau provided food and medical care to blacks and whites in the South.

Freedmen’s Bureau: What did the Bureau do with land?

The Bureau distributed some land in 40-acre plots to the “loyal refugees and freedmen.”

Freedmen’s Bureau: How did the Bureau try to improve education?

The Bureau tried to improve education by building free schools for African Americans.

Black Codes: What was the first purpose of the black codes?

The first goal was to limit the rights of freedmen.

For example, Blacks could not vote or serve on juries in the South.

Black Codes: What was the second purpose of the black codes?

The second goal was to help planters find workers to replace their slaves.

For example, the codes required freedmen to work, and those without jobs could be arrested and hired out to planters. It also limited freedmen to farming or jobs that required few skills and prohibited them from entering most trades or starting businesses.

Black Codes: What was the third purpose of the black codes?

The third goal was to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South.

For example, most codes called for the segregation of blacks and whites in public spaces.

Reconstruction Amendments: What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment?

The purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment was to abolish slavery throughout the United States.

Reconstruction Amendments: What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant citizenship to “all people born or naturalized in the United States.” It also guaranteed all citizen “the equal protection of the laws,” which meant that state governments could not treat some citizens as less equal than others.

Reconstruction Amendments: What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?

The purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment was that a citizen’s right to vote “shall not be denied…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This guaranteed every male citizen the right to vote, no matter their race.

Reconstruction Ends: Southern whites hated their new governments forced on them by…

Yankees

Reconstruction Ends: African American politicians were violently driven out of office by the…

Ku Klux Klan

Reconstruction Ends: The Enforcement Act tried but failed to protect African American…

voting rights

Losing Rights: What did Southern states use to prevent African Americans from voting?

Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent African Americans from voting.

Losing Rights: What happened in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared segregation legal as long as facilities were equal.