Reconstruction

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

The period of rebuilding after the Civil War

Question 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Giving by Lincoln saying that all slaves in the South were free. It failed to free any slave

Question 2

Sharecropper

Answer 2

A farmer who gets everything he needs to start a farm in exchange for his work; he has to pay it with a share of his crops

It was like slavery, with little to no pay

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

Abolition of Slavery (Get rid off)

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

Guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the US

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

Gave all men the right to vote regardless of their race or if they had been a slave.

Question 6

Freedmen

Answer 6

Anyone who was a former slave and is now free.

Question 7

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 7

Laws created that limited the rights of African Americans

Question 8

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 8

Was ruled that the segregation laws were not violating the constitution, creating “separate but equal”