Vocabulary
The Rebuilding of the country, especially the South, after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The Reconstruction Acts required Southern states to write a new one of these, giving African American men the right to vote.
What is a new constitution (or new state constitution)?
This word means change or addition.
What is amendment?
One failure of reconstruction was segregation. These are two examples of places that were segregated.
What are:
schools, hospitals, movie theaters, railroad cars, or whole towns?
The South remained this even after Reconstruction.
What is poor?
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction, many tried to make a profit for themselves.
What is a scalawag?
Reconstruction Acts prevented former Confederate leaders from holding this.
What is elected or public office?
The number of amendments to the Constitution that Congress passed as part of Reconstruction.
What is the number three? or What is three?
Another failure of Reconstruction were black codes. It denied black American men three rights.
What are the right to vote, owning guns, and taking or holding certain jobs.
After Reconstruction, this was widespread in the South.
What is poverty?
Laws that kept black American men from voting, owning guns, or holding certain jobs?
What are black codes?
Former Confederate states were divided into these.
What are military districts?
This amendment was ratified by the states in 1870. It gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
One success of Reconstruction was the Freedman's Bureau. These are two things the Freedmen's Bureau did.
What are:
built schools and hospitals and hired African American and white teachers from the North and the South?
These people stayed in debt because they couldn't repay their loans for tools or seeds because the interest rates were high, and they had a hard time paying their rent from their crops.
What is a sharecropper?
Treating another person or group unfairly based on their religion, race, gender, etc.
What is discrimination?
Reconstruction Acts also prevented former Confederate leaders from doing this.
What is voting?
The 13th amendment did this.
What is abolished slavery? or What is ended slavery?
Another success of Reconstruction is a free one of these was established.
What is a free education system?
After Reconstruction, African Americans lost some of this which they had gained during Reconstruction.
What is political power? or What is lost some rights?
Men could vote only if their father or grandfather voted before 1867.
What is the "grandfather clause"?
Congress passed this in 1866 to grant freedmen full legal equality.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These three things are included in the 14th Amendment.
What are all citizens are equal before the law, Congress has the power to enforce this, and important Confederate leaders could not hold public office.
One success of Reconstruction was that new leaders raised taxes to rebuild these.
What are roads and railroads?
These were state and local laws in the South that promoted segregation and discrimination of black Americans. They also prevented African American men from voting.
What are Jim Crow laws?