What is the word?
what word means to set free?
emancipate
Carpetbagger
a person who runs for elected office in a place where they are not from
Gave all citizens the right to vote
Fifteenth Amendment
What day is it today?
Friday
what is the word that means the ending a practice, usually referring to slavery?
abolition
Literacy Test
a reading and writing test used to deny voting rights to African Americans
the forced separation of different groups
Segregation
How are you feeling?
Any answer
What word means a group of Southern states that had seceded from the Union
Confederacy
Secede
to formally separate from
a system in which a person, usually a freedman, uses the land owned by another in exchange for a portion of the crops produced on that land plus related fees
Sharecropping
What is your social studies teachers name?
Mr. Strat
a terrorist organization that was racist and worked to scare African American
Klu Klux Klan
Poll Tax
a fee required to vote, used to deny voting rights to African Americans
laws that attempted to limit the right of African Americans following emancipation
Black Codes
Fourteenth Amendment
Made all people born in the United States Citizens
What word means laws on the local and state level tat forced segregation?
Jim Crow Law
Thirteenth Amendment
officially ended slavery
the period of time following the Civil War in which the South rebuilt and rejoined the Union
Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
an organization created to help A.A transition into freedom