Chapter 14

Quiz for Chapter Fourteen America in Global Context: Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States

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Question 1

The Haitian Code of Laws and the Black Codes instituted in some of the former Confederate states after the Civil War differed in which of the following ways?A. The Haitian law required every black person in the nation to perform agricultural work, whereas the Black Codes stipulated that only blacks in the South had to work.
B. The Haitian law prohibited rural laborers from migrating, whereas the Black Codes did not limit freed slaves’ mobility.
C. The Black Codes required freed slaves to make their children work, but the Haitian Code of Laws did not.
D. The Black Codes required freed slaves to perform agricultural labor, but the Haitian Code of Laws was more flexible.

Question 2

Unlike the white creators of the Black Codes, the men who drafted the Haitian Code of Laws were men of color. What factor mostly likely motivated the Haitian lawmakers’ actions?A. Racism
B. Nationalism
C. Religious devotion
D. Economic self-interest