Reconstruction Vocab.

Question 1

What is the 15th amendment?

Answer 1

Grants African American males the right to vote

Question 2

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 2

A series of racist laws and measure that discriminated against African Americans

Question 3

What does Abolish mean ?

Answer 3

To formally put an end to

Question 4

What are radical Republicans ?

Answer 4

A section of the Rapublicans party that wanted to punish the South for the Civil War

Question 5

What is Separate but Equal

Answer 5

Practice that was established to justify racial segregation in public facilities

Question 6

What is the 14th amendment?

Answer 6

Grants citizenship and equal protection under the law

Question 7

What does Lynching mean?

Answer 7

To put to death usually by hanging by a mob and without legal authority

Question 8

What is Segregation ?

Answer 8

The legal separation of different racial groups in a country community or establishment

Question 9

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 9

Formally bring an end to slavery in the United States making it illegal.

Question 10

What is Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 10

An agency to help provide food education and medical care for free slaves

Question 11

What is Reconstruction?

Answer 11

The time period after the Civil War when Americ needed to reunite and rebuild

Question 12

What are black codes?

Answer 12

Laws established by Southern state governments after the Civil War to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons

Question 13

What is to Secede?

Answer 13

To withdraw from membership in a federal union