Reconstruction section 5.2 Trimble

What were the black codes?

• Secret codes sent by freedmen

• Laws that restricted Freedmen's rights

• Codes that gave freedmen rights

Two examples of black codes:

• Curfews: black people could not gather after sunset

• Freedom to learn

• Vagrancy laws: freedmen convicted of vagrancy (not working) could be fined, whipped, or sold for a year's labor

________ _________ freedman had to sign these in January for a year of work. Those who quit in the middle of a contract often lost their years wages.

In June 1866 Congress passed this amendment which gave citizenship to all people who were born or naturalized in the United States.

• First Amendment
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Twenty-Second Amendment

Under Johnson's reconstruction plan, white southerners began to enact laws that

• weakened ties with the union

• redistributed land

• created jobs for the freedmen

• gave whites power over blacks

Civil Rights

• Human rights
• Personal liberties guarenteed by law

• The laws to be civil to freedman

• N/A

Reconstruction Act of 1867 Key provisions

• Put the South under military rule

• Ordered southern states to hold new elections for for delegates to create new state constitutions

• Required states to allow all qualified male voters, including African Americans to vote in the elections

• All of the above

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Thaddeus Stevens, a congressman from Pennsylvania, were both leading spokesmen for these people

• pro-slavery advocates
• Radical Republicans

• slave owners
• Confederate soldiers

What does impeach mean?

• To remove a public official from office.
• To praise a public official for their good work.
• To charge a public official with misconduct in office.
• To promote a public official to a higher position.

This Amendment states that no citizen may be denied the right to vote

• 15th Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 10th Amendment
• 1st Amendment