RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Laws that could force blacks who did not have work contracts back into servitude because they were unemployed
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A bill passed by congress but pocket-voted by Lincoln that aided to severely punish the south
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The formal name for laws that southern states began passing to limit the rights of african americans
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vagrancy laws took myriad forms, generally making it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious. Vagrancy laws often included prohibitions on loitering-wandering around without any apparent lawful purpose-though some jurisdictions criminalized loitering separately.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Vagrancy Act of 1866, passed by the General Assembly on January 15, 1866, forced into employment, for a term of up to three months, any person who appeared to be unemployed or homeless.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vagrancy laws provided a convenient solution to the labor shortage: Memphis blacks who could not prove gainful employment in the city were presumed guilty of vagrancy and subject to arrest and impressment into the agricultural labor force.