The conditions in the South during Reconstruction
Even though Southern states rejoined the Union and agreed to the 13th amendment (which outlawed the institution of slavery), the South looked very similar to what it did before the Civil War started. Even though African Americans were technically free, many of them still worked on plantations. There work on plantations was under the system known as sharecropping. Sharecropping is a system in which a person leases land from a farm owners. In return, the worker promises to give land owners a share of their crop. This system resulted in strict labor contracts. Ultimately, this system would tie African Americans to plantations as plantation owners used loopholes within the contract to keep their tenants from finding other opportunities.
Along with this, African Americans were still treated horribly in the South. The development of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization, resulted in the beating and killing of thousands of African American citizens. This group was created in order to strike fear in the hearts of African American citizens and to prevent them from using their newly gained rights (like the right for men to vote).
Lastly, the South would continue to treat African Americans as inferior by the implementation of black codes and Jim Crow laws. These laws allowed for the development of segregated public and private facilities.
Being multinational organisations the IMF, World Bank and WTO can start programs that not only would focus on providing shelter, food and clothing to the poor but also a good and sustainable source on income. By providing a sustainable livelihood to these poor people these organisations would them be able to provide themselves making them able to no longer rely on charity and donations in order to survive their daily lives. By having a sustainable source of income these poor people can have the ability to gain money which then can be used to buy their own food, clothing, shelter and education. The most important thing that money would give to these poor people is education. Through proper education these poor people would increase their knowledge enabling them to be qualified for higher paying jobs.
The correct answer is D) They are no citizens and they have no right to petition in Court.
<em>What the Court said concerning the status of free blacks living in the United States is that “they are no citizens and they have no right to petition in Court.”
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In the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sanford of March 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott was not entitled to his freedom. Scott had lived in a state that supported slavery but he was sold to an owner that lived in a non-slavery state. The Court decision was that African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
<u>Original Question: </u><u><em>Which of the following groups would most likely live in a tenement?</em></u>
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<u>Answer: Choice (D)</u> or <u>A poor immigrant</u>
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<em>Reason: Tenements were essentially extremely small apartments that made up one entire house that was often rundown but cheap. This was particularly appealing to immigrants who often had little money coming into the US, however for a boss, a manager, or a magnate, would often own a house since they generally had more money and disdained living in tenement</em>
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