FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

RECONSTRUCTION VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: ratify

Answer:

to confirm by expressing consent or approval

Question 2: Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer:

was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. The 14th Amendment was ratified two years later.

Question 3: abolish

Answer:

to completely and officially end

Question 4: 15th amendment

Answer:

gave all male citizens the right to vote, regardless of race.

Question 5: freedmen

Answer:

the term for men, women, and children who were freed from slavery after the Civil War

Question 6: discrimination

Answer:

the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people

Question 7: 13th amendment

Answer:

abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Question 8: amendment

Answer:

A change or addition to the Constitution that once ratified has the same legal power as the original document.

Question 9: agriculture

Answer:

the science and business of producing crops, raising livestock, and general farming

Question 10: segregation

Answer:

separation of people of different races

Question 11: Ten Percent Plan

Answer:

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, which required that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters

Question 12: plantation

Answer:

a large area of land especially in a hot part of the world where crops (such as cotton) are grown

Question 13: 14th amendment

Answer:

gave citizenship status to all of those born in the United States, and guaranteed equal protection under the law. States were forbidden from interfering with the rights of citizens by the federal government.

Question 14: casualty

Answer:

a person who is hurt or killed during an accident, war, etc.

Question 15: Congressional Reconstruction

Answer:

angry about Black Codes and efforts in the South to limit the equality of freedmen in any way possible, the Congress took control of Reconstruction from President Johnson and passed many Reconstruction Acts, one dividing the South into military districts

Question 16: Black Codes

Answer:

were laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War to prevent blacks from having the full rights of citizens and to restore, as much as possible, the labor and racial controls of slavery .

Question 17: Compromise of 1877

Answer:

an unwritten deal that settled the outcome of the 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.

Question 18: Radical Republicans

Answer:

group of Republicans during Reconstruction who were intent on punishing white Southerners for the Civil War.

Question 19: Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer:

Supreme Court ruling that said segregation was okay as long as things were "separate, but equal"; legalized segregation

Question 20: assassinate

Answer:

to kill for political reasons by using a surprise attack

Question 21: carpetbaggers

Answer:

White Northerners in the South after the Civil War seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments.

Question 22: scalawags

Answer:

White Southerners who supported the Reconstruction governments after the Civil War often for private gain.

Question 23: tenant

Answer:

a person, business, group, etc., that pays to use another person's property

Question 24: impeach

Answer:

bring charges against an elected official who is accused of breaking the law - it may or may not result in the official's removal from office.

Question 25: Freedmen's Bureau

Answer:

Federal agency that provided schools, hospitals, medical care, etc. to newly freed slaves.

Question 26: Jim Crow Laws

Answer:

southern state laws that enforced a policy of segregating or discriminating against black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.

Question 27: sharecropping

Answer:

system of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops they raise