13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan

Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities

Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes

Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting

African American families divided by slavery were reunited

Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

Establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves

Mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners

Abolish the institution of slavery

Protect the voting rights of African American men

The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform

The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

Agricultural workers organized labor unions

Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves