Ch 9

Question 1

freedman

Answer 1

a person freed from slavery

Question 2

freedman’s beaureo

Answer 2

a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves

Question 3

reconstruction

Answer 3

the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Question 4

13th amendment

Answer 4

an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation

Question 5

amnesty

Answer 5

a government pardon

Question 6

black codes

Answer 6

the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

Question 7

15th amendmant

Answer 7

an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

Question 8

14th amendmant

Answer 8

an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws

Question 9

reconstruction act

Answer 9

an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 10

impeach

Answer 10

to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official

Question 11

radical republicans

Answer 11

a member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

Question 12

ku klux klan

Answer 12

a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence

Question 13

share cropper

Answer 13

a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop

Question 14

carpet bagger

Answer 14

an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War

Question 15

scalawag

Answer 15

a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

Question 16

compromise of 1877

Answer 16

an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876

Question 17

literacy test

Answer 17

an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights

Question 18

poll tax

Answer 18

a tax required before a person can vote

Question 19

grandfather clause

Answer 19

in the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867

Question 20

segregation

Answer 20

the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Question 21

jim crow laws

Answer 21

laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South

Question 22

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 22

an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal

Question 23

new south

Answer 23

a term used to describe the south in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry