Chapter 20

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed

Question 2

Amnesty

Answer 2

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

Question 3

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 3

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Question 4

Black Codes

Answer 4

a name given to laws passed by southern governments (white southerners) after the Civil War (in 1865) that was established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson.

Question 5

Moderate

Answer 5

average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree

Question 6

Civil Rights

Answer 6

the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

Question 7

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 7

Fourteenth Amendment as: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.

Question 8

Scalawag

Answer 8

a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.

Question 9

Carpetbagger

Answer 9

a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.

Question 10

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 10

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.

Question 11

Lynch

Answer 11

(of a mob) kill (someone), esp. by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

Question 12

Compromise of 1877

Answer 12

The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.

Question 13

Sharecropping

Answer 13

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.

Question 14

Jim Crow laws

Answer 14

The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level.

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

Question 16

Plessy V, Ferguson

Answer 16

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal”.