CLUSTER 20B Study Guide - Final Guide: Jacqueline Jones, Reconstruction Amendments, Sharecropping
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Black people wanted to grow communities and families. 13th- no slavery (except if convicted of a crime through due process) The legal framework of prison industrial complex. 14th- guaranteed citizenship and equal protection (not enforced during. 15th- right to vote, but only for men (notable exceptions: women, Sharecropping was supposed to help african americans gain freedom and to be more independent from slave owners, but sharecropping furthered made african. Americans inferior and subject to oppression as they had to be dependent on the white landowners. They were charged unfair fees further put them in debt and unable to move up economically. Jim crow laws/black codes (racial inequality, institutionalized racism) Economic oppression, social repression, legal inequalities, political disenfranchisement, educational marginalization and segregation. Examples of black codes: vagrancy was punishable, workers couldn"t leave their jobs if contracts weren"t expired without losing earned wages, many people were excluded from land ownership, no intermarriage. Segregation in education, the military, transportation, and in the law.
