Chapter 2 Vocab

Question 1

the men and women who had been enslaved

Answer 1

Freedmen

Question 2

the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Answer 2

Reconstruction

Question 3

a government pardon

Answer 3

Amnesty

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Thirteenth amendment

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Black codes

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Radical republicans

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Reconstruction act

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Fourteenth amendment

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Fifteenth amendment

Question 10

to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official

Answer 10

Impeach

Question 11

a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

Answer 11

Scalawag

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Sharecropper

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Carpetbagger

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Compromise of 1877

Question 16

a tax required before a person can vote

Answer 16

Poll Tax

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Literacy

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Grandfather clause

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Segregation

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Jim Crow Laws

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 22

a term used to describe the south in the late 1800’s

Answer 22

New South