• Black Codes - How did they take away rights? What "rights" did they give?
  • Black legislators - What did they accomplish/what limitations did they face?
  • Sharecropping's role after Civil War
  • Education's role during Reconstruction (freedom!)
  • How did southern states disfranchise black voters?
  • What was the color line? Why was it created, and how was it maintained?
  • Presidential Reconstruction vs. Congressional Reconstruction (hint: one is better than the other)
  • the Convict-Leasing System, how it affected views on black men & how it reflects even to this day :/
  • Civil Rights Act of 1866 - rebuttal to Black Codes! hiyah!
  • South's economy before and after Civil War.
  • How did the 13th amendment and it's one particular clause tie into the Convict-Leasing System? (also arguably the most important amendment ever) aka Black Codes being south's response
  • 14th amendment
  • 15th amendment
  • Policy of leniency - why was this policy enacted and what was its consequences in rebuilding the South?
  • Freedman's Bureau
feb 3 2020 ∞
feb 3 2020 +