Reconstruction vocabulary

Question 1

Carperbagger

Answer 1

a white Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction to help black people

Question 2

civil rights

Answer 2

the rights of individuals to political, social, and economic equality

Question 3

Democratic rights

Answer 3

those entitlements that citizens enjoy and that are fundamental to the continuation

Question 4

Impeachment

Answer 4

the first step in legally removing an elected official for office

Question 5

lynching

Answer 5

the act of murdering someone harshly and publicly because of racial hatred, usually a black person by whites

Question 6

Martial law

Answer 6

legal and physical control by the military

Question 7

Scalawag

Answer 7

a white Southerner who helped black people during Reconstruction

Question 8

Vagrancy

Answer 8

traveling around with no job or place t olive, considered a crime in may places

Question 9

Crop lien

Answer 9

a system where tenants and sharecroppers would promise to pay back a store owner for goods with the money from later crop harvests

Question 10

Entrepreneur

Answer 10

someone willing to take risks by investing in and managing new businesses

Question 11

Imperialism

Answer 11

the practice where one country takes control of other countries to gain power in another region of the world

Question 12

Interest

Answer 12

a fee that must be paid for borrowing money or buying on credit

Question 13

Monopoly

Answer 13

when a company has total control of an industry or a supply of goods

Question 14

Sharecropping

Answer 14

a type of tenant farming in which the tenant receives a share of the crop from the landowner as payment for labor

Question 15

Tenant farming

Answer 15

a system of farming where a farmer rents a plot of land and a house from the landowner

Question 16

Coup

Answer 16

an overthrow of the government by a small group

Question 17

Disenfranchise

Answer 17

to deprive someone of opportunity, especially of the right to vote

Question 18

Literacy test

Answer 18

a test given before a person could register to vote, one method used to disenfranchise black voters

Question 19

Poll tax

Answer 19

a small tax people had to pay to vote; one method used to disenfranchise black voters

Question 20

Resurgence

Answer 20

an increase in power or influence after a period without a period without it

Question 21

Vigilante

Answer 21

a person who takes it upon themselves to punish criminal behavior

Question 22

Credit

Answer 22

an arrangement that allows a consumer to pay for as good or service over an extended period of time