Black Codes (KA)

Black code laws were created to help African American during Reconstruction (T/F)

• False

• True

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Black codes deprived African Americans of (check all that apply)

• the right to vote

• the right to serve on juries

• the right to own or carry weapons

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Judges could send African American orphans to plantation owners and be forced to work. (T/F)

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

Many African American workers were forced to sign contracts that

• forced them to work for free

• limited them to work for one employer

• made them stay in the old slave quarters

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

If an African American refused to sign the contract they could be punished by: (check all that apply)

• fines

• beatings

• arrests for vagrancy

• deportation

• house arrest

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

If an African American was arrested, they could be forced to work without pay, effectively becoming a slave. (T/F)

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Outrage over the Black Codes spurred this era:

• Antebellum

• Reconstruction

• Industrialization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Black Codes were outlawed, but

• many southern states continued to discriminate against African Americans

• were soon reinstated

• were adopted in the West

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A violent, terroristic white supremacist group was the

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crows

• Black Codes

At the end of Reconstruction, newly freed African Americans saw

• little improvement in their economic and social status

• major improvement in their economic and social status

• little improvement in their economic but major improvement in their economic status

• major improvement in their economic but little improvement in their social status

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9