reconstructon

Question 1

black codes

Answer 1

laws in small towns that limited freed slaves rights after the civil war

Question 2

carpetbagger

Answer 2

a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.

Question 3

scalawag

Answer 3

a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit

Question 4

sharecropping

Answer 4

when southern plantation owners rented out part of their farm to freed slaves which drove them deeper into debt

Question 5

13th admendment

Answer 5

abolished slavery in the united states

Question 6

14th amendment

Answer 6

everyone born and naturalized in the united states is considered a citizen including freed slaves

Question 7

15th admendment

Answer 7

prohibits state and federal goverments from denying a freed slave the right to vote

Question 8

poll tax

Answer 8

a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.

Question 9

literacy test

Answer 9

test for freed slaves that sees if there able to read well enough to vote

Question 10

lynching

Answer 10

(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

Question 11

jim crow laws

Answer 11

laws that said what blacks had and couldnt do in certain situations

Question 12

sergation

Answer 12

to separate a race from another- blacks and whites

Question 13

plessy v. feguson

Answer 13

supreme court case that look at how blacks were treated during segregation

Question 14

compromise of 1877

Answer 14

ended the reconstruction era and pulled the northern troops out of the south

Question 15

freedmen’s bureau

Answer 15

an agency that was set up to help freed slaves obtain aid in jobs and fair treatment