Reconstruction of the Union

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

Period after the Civil War when Southern states and freedmen were being reintegrated into the United States

Question 2

10% plan

Answer 2

Lincoln’s plan requiring ten percent of voters in a southern state to swear allegiance to the Union before it could be readmitted

Question 3

Oath of allegiance

Answer 3

Pledge acknowledging one’s duty and swearing loyalty

Question 4

Assassination

Answer 4

Politically motivated killing

Question 5

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 5

Temporary organization for assisting previously enslaved people and other poor or displeased people after the Civil War

Question 6

Black codes

Answer 6

Laws passed in many Southern states to restrict formerly enslaved people and continue the labor practices of slavery

Question 7

Vagrancy

Answer 7

Loitering, wandering, or homelessness that is recognized as a criminal act

Question 8

Penal labor

Answer 8

Forcing people to work in prison or plantations as punishment

Question 9

Sharecropping

Answer 9

System in which families rent land and pay the owner a share of their crops

Question 10

Veto

Answer 10

Rejection of a proposed law or decision

Question 11

13th Amendment

Answer 11

Amendment that abolished slavery (except as punishment)

Question 12

14th Amendment

Answer 12

Amendment that extended citizenship to formerly enslaved people born in the U.S. and granted equal protection under the law

Question 13

15th Amendment

Answer 13

Amendment that granted the right to vote to black men