Ameliorate Reconstruction: Status Quo Ante Bellum

Directions: students should correct the sentences below, in red. There are 3 missing commas, 1 missing semicolon, 2 capitalization errors.

Defeated Confederates tried to restore the status quo ante bellum with the black codes laws that diminished the freedom of former slaves they could not own guns buy liquor or engage in any work except farming.

Video: BLACK CODES

Suggested Answer: 
Defeated Confederates tried to restore the status quo ante bellum with the Black Codes, laws that diminished the freedom of former slaves; they could not own guns, buy liquor, or engage in any work except farming.