Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

1. How did the black codes (Document 14.5) attempt to reimpose bondage on former slaves?

2. Why did African Americans consider property holding a fundamental right (Document 14.6)?

3. Contrast the image of South Carolina’s black politicians as presented in Richard Cain’s speech (Document 14.6) and Thomas Nast’s cartoon (Document 14.8).

4. Despite Ku Klux Klan intimidation and the fear it produced in African Americans, what does the testimony of Ellen Parton (Document 14.7) reveal about black attempts to resist it?

5. What sources of unity existed between the North and the South that would bring Reconstruction to an end (Document 14.9)? Compare northern attitudes about protecting freedpeople in the South in 1876 to that in 1865.