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Tenant Farming
A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management. while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management. Depending on the contract, tenants can make payments to the owner either of a fixed portion of the product or in cash. -
Black Codes
In the United States, the most notorious Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866.These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting Black people's freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. Since the early 1800s, many laws in both North and South discriminated systematically against free Blacks. In the South, "slave codes" placed significant restrictions on Black Americans who were not themselves slaves. -
reconstruction act of 1867
After the end of the American Civil War, as part of the on-going process of Reconstruction, the United States Congress passed four statutes known as Reconstruction Acts.The establishment of military government in the Southern states as a feature of the system imposed under the Reconstruction Acts was due primarily to the fact that the introduction of Negro suffrage was thought to be possible only through a show of strength -
Texas vs White
Texas vs White was an important case argued before the United States Supreme Court in 1869. The case involved a claim that United States bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the Cival War. -
15th amendment
The Fitteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race or color of their skin. It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. Towards the end of the American Civil War, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869, congress abolished slavery and gave citizenship to all african americans.
