Unit 10-Reconstruction

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly freed people into the United States

Question 2

What are black codes?

Answer 2

laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of Black people

Question 3

What does segregation mean?

Answer 3

the action of separating people, historically based on race and/or gender

Question 4

13th Amendment

Answer 4

To abolish slavery in the United States.

Question 5

14th Amendment

Answer 5

everyone born in the United States is a citizen and all states must treat everyone fairly under the law, ensuring equal protection.

Question 6

15th Amendment

Answer 6

prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 7

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 7

A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

Question 8

Sharecropping

Answer 8

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.