Black Codes

You were considered Black if you were 1% African American according to the Black Codes-True or False

• True
• False

Freedman were not allowed to marry-True or False

• True
• False

Freedman were not allowed to marry-True or False

• True
• False

Due to the 2nd Amendment, Blacks were allowed to carry guns-True or False

• True
• False

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

• False

• True

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

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

• True

• False

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

Outrage over the Black Codes spurred this era:

• Antebellum

• Reconstruction

• Industrialization

Black Codes were outlawed, but

• many southern states continued to discriminate against African Americans

• were soon reinstated

• were adopted in the West