How Representative is Congress? Thinking about Congress, what is meant by “representation?” Do you believe that the U.S. Congress is representative of people like you? Why or why not? Background Materials 1. OpenStax, Chapter 11 https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/11-introduction 2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Political Representation.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/political-representation/ 3. Legistorm, “Congress by the Numbers” https://www.legistorm.com/congress_by_numbers/index/by/house/mode/age/term_id/65.html
List three things that freedmen and women were not allowed to do according to the Black Codes. Why would white Southerners pass laws that controlled the movement of African Americans?
American Studies Assignment Answer the following questions about the reconstruction after the civil war: When were these Black Codes written? Who do you think wrote these laws? List three things that freedmen and women were not allowed to do according to the Black Codes. Why would white Southerners pass laws that controlled the movement of […]