1. Reconstruction
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2. 1. How do we integrate and protect newly- emancipated black freedmen?
Key Question
1. How do we integrate and protect newly- emancipated black freedmen?

3. 5 KEY FACTORS IN
RECONSTRUCTION

4. 1. 14th Amendment 2. 15th Amendment
Ratified in July, 1868: CITIZENSHIP
Provide a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed people.
2. 15th Amendment
Ratified in 1870: VOTE
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of slavery.

5. 3. Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)
WORKED TO PROTECT BLACK RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH.
PROVIDED: EMPLOYMENT, MEDICAL CARE AND EDUCATION

6. 4. Black Codes
Purpose:
Guarantee stable labor supply now that blacks were liberated.
Forced many blacks to become sharecroppers [tenant farmers].

7. 5. JIM CROW LAWS
EST. IN THE 1880s. GOV’T CREATED A LAW THE MADE FACILITIES SEPARATE BUT EQUAL.