Topic 9

Question 1

Freedmen

Answer 1

The men and women who had been enslaved.

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

The rebuilding of the South after the Civil war.

Question 3

Amnesty

Answer 3

A government pardon/ excuse.

Question 4

Freedom’ s Bureau

Answer 4

A government’ s agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.

Question 5

13th Amendment

Answer 5

An 1865 amendment to the us constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.

Question 6

Black Codes

Answer 6

The Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the war.

Question 7

Radical Republicans

Answer 7

A member of congress during reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freed men received the right to vote.

Question 8

14th Amendment

Answer 8

An 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the 14th amendment.

Question 9

Impeach

Answer 9

To bring charges of seriously wrong doing against a public official.

Question 10

Scalawag

Answer 10

A white southerner who supported the Republicans during the reconstruction

Question 11

Carpetbagger

Answer 11

An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War.

Question 12

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 12

A seceret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.

Question 13

Share Cropper

Answer 13

A person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms if in exchange for a share of the crop

Question 14

Compromise of 1877

Answer 14

An agreement by republican presidential candidate Ruthe frord B/ Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as president after the dusputed election of 1876

Question 15

poll tax

Answer 15

A tax required before a person can vote (dd)

Question 16

Literacy

Answer 16

An examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights.

Question 17

Grandfather clause

Answer 17

in the past Reconstruction south a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote by 1/1/1867.

Question 18

Segregation

Answer 18

The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

Question 19

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 19

Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.

Question 20

Plessy V. Ferguson

Answer 20

An 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.