Vocab Quiz Chapter 9

Question 1

The men and women who had been enslaved

Answer 1

Freedmen

Question 2

The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Answer 2

Reconstruction

Question 3

A government pardon

Answer 3

Amnesty

Question 4

A government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves

Answer 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 5

An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation

Answer 5

13th amendment

Question 6

The southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

Answer 6

Black Codes

Question 7

A member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

Answer 7

Radical Republicans

Question 8

An 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws

Answer 8

14th amendment

Question 9

An 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 9

Reconstruction act

Question 10

To bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official

Answer 10

Impeach

Question 11

An 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

Answer 11

15th amendment

Question 12

A white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

Answer 12

Scalawag

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Carpetbagger

Question 14

A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Sharecropper

Question 16

An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

Answer 16

Compromise of 1877

Question 17

A tax required before a person can vote

Answer 17

Poll Tax

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Literacy text

Question 19

In the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867

Answer 19

Grandfather clause

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Segregation

Question 21

Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South

Answer 21

Jim Crow laws

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 23

A term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry

Answer 23

“New South”