Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

▪ Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)

1. In what way did the Black Codes restrict African Americans’ property rights to limit their economic leverage?

2. Black residents of Mississippi were required to carry “written evidence” or papers showing what two things?

3. If a black laborer quit his/her contract before it expired, what was a possible consequence?

4. If a black orphan or child of poor parents was taken by the court to become an apprentice, who was given “preference” as the child’s master?

5. How much was the fee required as “bond and security” if a black defendant wished to appeal a vagrancy charge in court?

▪ National Woman Suffrage Association, “Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States” (1876)

6. What celebration was the occasion for the NWSA’s declaration of women’s rights?

7. What word had been introduced into the 14th Amendment and the state constitutions that effectively denied women’s suffrage?

8. What happened “[w]hen the slave power was dominant” that the NWSA saw as analogous to women’s situation?

9. Describe one inequity (other than suffrage) that the NWSA said had resulted from the fact that women were treated differently under the laws of different states.

10. In what way did the NWSA believe “universal manhood suffrage” had fostered “a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy”?