Descriptions for each question please. Worth 25 points. 1. Briefly explain the 13th amendment
2. Briefly explain the 14th amendment
3. Briefly explain the 15th amendment
4. What was sharecropping and how was it similar to slavery?
5. What were the "Black codes" ?
6. What were poll taxes?
7. What were literacy tests?
8. What was the "Grandfather Clause" ?

1.  13th amendment

This amendment freed all slaves without compensation to the slaveowners. It legally forbade slavery in the United States.

2.  14th Amendment

This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels.

3.  15th Amendment

citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

4.  Southern economy were in disorder, cause conflict Sharecropper were slaves Poor people worked in exchange for food and life mostly in South.

5.  Defined what it meant to be black

-Prevented blacks from voting/holding office etc

-Prevented blacks from serving in state militias

-Prohibited interracial marriage between whites and blacks

-Mandated and regulated labor contracts between whites and free blacks

6.  A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

7.  A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote

8.  A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

Explanation:

you will need these

an outline of all three paragraphsan identification of the historical era that you are writing aboutan explanation of the term mass productiona description of two ways new technology affected industrya conclusion that shows how new technologies allowed industrialization to grow