vocabulary

Question 1

sharecropping

Answer 1

former plantation owners divided their lands and rented out each plot, or share, to a black family.

Question 2

black codes

Answer 2

outlawed everything from interracial marriage to loitering in public areas, and unemployment.

Question 3

Andrew Johnson

Answer 3

17th U.S. president; Impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868 but later acquitted by the Senate.

Question 4

Scalawags

Answer 4

Southern Unionists

Question 5

Reconstruction

Answer 5

Bill reduced the secessionist states to little more than conquered territory.

Question 6

Exodusters

Answer 6

African Americans who fled North Carolina

Question 7

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 7

A bill aimed to eliminate social discrimination and forbade discrimination in all public places, such as theaters, hotels, and restaurants.

Question 8

Carpetbaggers

Answer 8

people known to carry their possessions in large carpetbags, some moved from the North to promote education others to modernize the South, and others to seek their fortune.

Question 9

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 9

19th U.S. president; technically lost election but took office after Compromise of 1877 with Democrats

Question 10

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 10

declared that segregated public and private facilities for blacks and whites were “Separate But Equal,” effectively justifying Jim Crow segregation laws.