Vocab words topic 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

a 1865 amendment to the United States constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation

Answer 5

Thirteenth 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 the reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure the freedmen received the right to vote

Answer 7

radical republican

Question 8

a 1868 amendment to the united states constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws

Answer 8

fourteenth amendment

Question 9

an 1867 law that threw out the southern state government 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

fifteenth amendment

Question 12

an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the civil war

Answer 12

carpetbagger

Question 13

a secret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence

Answer 13

Ku Klux Klan

Question 14

a white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction

Answer 14

scalawag

Question 15

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

Answer 15

sharecroppers