Civil War

Question 1

Freedmen

Answer 1

The men and women who had been enslaved

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Question 3

Amnesty

Answer 3

A government pardon

Question 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 4

A government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves

Question 5

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 5

A 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution and abolished slavery

Question 6

Black Codes

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Radical Republicans

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 8

An 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantee equal protection of the laws including formerly enslaved people

Question 9

Reconstruction Act

Answer 9

An 1867 law that threw out the southern states governments that refused to ratify the 14th amendment

Question 10

Impeach

Answer 10

To bring charges of serious wrongdoings against a public official

Question 11

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Scalawags

Answer 12

A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

Question 13

Carpetbagger

Answer 13

An uncomplimentary nickname for a notherner who went to the south after the Civil War

Question 14

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Compromise of 1877

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Poll Tax

Answer 16

A tax required by law before a person can vote

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

Grandfather Clause

Answer 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

Question 19

Segregation

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 20

Laws that separated people of different races in public spaces in the South

Question 21

Plessy V. Ferguson

Answer 21

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

Question 22

“New Laws”

Answer 22

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