Reconstruction Era terms/vocabulary

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

The task of rebuilding the south

Question 2

Lincoln’s 10% plan

Answer 2

That if 10% of the state toke a loyalty oath that state could rejoin the union

Question 3

Wade Davis bill

Answer 3

That Is the majority of the males toke a oath that they did not fight against the union they could join

Question 4

13th amendment

Answer 4

The amendment that banned slavery

Question 5

14th amendment

Answer 5

Anyone born or naturalized in the U.S is a citizen

Question 6

15th amendment

Answer 6

You can’t deny anyone the right to vote based on race or color

Question 7

Black codes

Answer 7

African Americans were forced to work on labor based economy on low pay wadges or debt

Question 8

Civil rights act of 1866

Answer 8

Any person born or naturalized in the U.S is a citizen

Question 9

Scalawags

Answer 9

Any southerner who supported the federal plan of reconstruction

Question 10

Carpetbaggers

Answer 10

People who moved from the north to the south after the war

Question 11

KKK

Answer 11

A white supremacist group who terrorized African Americans

Question 12

Sharecropping

Answer 12

A tendent farmer who payed rent with crops

Question 13

Poll tax

Answer 13

A tax put on voting

Question 14

Literacy test

Answer 14

Where people had to read and write in order to vote

Question 15

Grandfather clause

Answer 15

Where your father and grandfather had to vote before you in order for you to vote

Question 16

Jim Crow laws

Answer 16

Laws that were put to support segragation

Question 17

Plessy vs. ferguson

Answer 17

The case where’d the supremacy fort decided that segregation was legal if both sides had equal thing

Question 18

Freedmen’s bureau

Answer 18

Help poor African Americans and whites with money