Vocabulary

Question 0

Reconstruction

Answer 0

The process the federal government used to readmit the confederate states to the union

Question 1

Radical Republican

Answer 1

A person Into the idea of reconstruction

Question 2

Freedman’ Bureau

Answer 2

A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war

Question 3

Black codes

Answer 3

A law passed by southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

Took over presidency after Lincoln, impeached

Question 5

Civil rights

Answer 5

Declared that all people born in the US except Native Americans were citizens

Question 6

14th Amendment

Answer 6

Stated that all people born in the US had rights and were citizens

Question 7

Freedman’ school

Answer 7

A school set up to educate newly freed African Americans

Question 8

Sharecropping

Answer 8

A system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, tools in return for a part of the crops they raised.

Question 9

Panic of 1873

Answer 9

A financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market collapsed.

Question 10

Lynch

Answer 10

When you hang someone from a tree

Question 11

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 11

Violent racist people who wanted to restore the control of the South and keep former slaves powerless.

Question 12

Compromise of 1877

Answer 12

The agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became president and the removed the last federal troops from the South.

Question 13

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 13

Stated that citizens couldn’t be stopped from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.