Reconstruction Vocabulary 1
Reconstruction Vocabulary 2
Reconstruction Vocabulary 3
Success or Failure?
True/False
100
What vocabulary word ended slavery?
What is Thirteenth Amendment
100
Who won the 1876 Election and what did he promise in order to win?
What is Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of troops from the South.
100
Define the term Reconstruction.
What is bringing the South back into the union.
100
The union is restored? Southern economic rebuilding begins.
What is successes.
100
The Ku Klux Klan started out as a fraternity because former Confederates were just bored.
What is true
200
What vocabulary word required African Americans to pay to vote?
What is poll tax.
200
What vocabulary word granted citizenship?
What is Fourteenth Amendment.
200
What is a literacy test and why was it such a big deal?
What is a test given to African Americans that they needed to be able to pass in order to vote. This was a big deal because African Americans were not educated, and therefore they wouldn't be able to pass the test.
200
Distribution of wealth and power in the South remains unchanged. Many southerners are caught in a cycle of poverty.
What is failures.
200
When Sharecropping both African Americans and White land owners shared land equally.
What is false
300
What vocabulary word granted voting rights?
What is Fifteenth Amendment
300
"If your grandfather was able to vote then you can vote!"
What is grandfather clause.
300
Who replaced Lincoln in office when he was assassinated?
What is Andrew Johnson.
300
Freedman's Bureau helps African Americans get education, housing, and jobs. Racism continues in the North and South.
What is success/failure.
300
De jure segregation is legal separation of the races.
What is true.
400
What did Radical Republicans do?
What is favored harsh Reconstruction policy for the south and fought for African American rights.
400
Explain what the Freedman's Bureau did.
What is provided newly freed slaves with schools, food, and helped them reunite with their families.
400
Exaplain the term Impeachment.
What is being removed from office due to an unlawful act.
400
Public school system develops in the South. Many southerners remain bitter toward the federal government and Republican Party.
What is success/failure
400
The Compromise of 1877 pulled all the military from the southern states.
What is true.
500
What did the 1st Ku Klux Klan do?
What is fight for White Suppremacy and terrorize African Americans.
500
What was Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction.
What is the Ten Percent Plan that stated 10% of each southern state had to pledge an oath of allegiance to be welcomed back into the union.
500
Explain the Wade Davis Bill.
What is 50% of each Southern state had to pledge an oath of allegiance to be welcomed back into the union.
500
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments grant African Americans citizenship and voting rights. Southern governments limit African American voting.
What is success/failure
500
Grandfather clause, literacy tests, poll taxes, and the Ku Klux Klan favored African Americans.
What is false.
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