Vocabulary
Amendments
Reconstruction
Farming
Friend or Foe?
100
Term for when the President or another political figure is killed
What is Assassination?
100
Place where most civil rights are listed (*hint* first 10 amendments)
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
Reason the South could not transport goods to other areas
What is destruction caused by the Civil War?
100
A system of farming in which the person lived on a landlord's land in exchange for half of the crops they grew there
What is sharecropping?
100
These laws sought to deprive African Americans of their civil rights
What were Jim Crow laws?
200
Term for separation of Whites and Blacks
What is Segregation?
200
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
200
This industry gained popularity over farming after the Civil War
What is business?
200
This is what sharecropping replaced
What is slavery?
200
Some of the things the Freedmen's Bureau provided to freed slaves
What is education, clothes, shelter, hospitals, etc.?
300
Term for a change or addition to the constitution
What is Amendment?
300
This amendment gave all freed slaves citizenship
What is the 14th amendment?
300
Reason industries needed to rebuild in the South after the Civil War
What is everything was destroyed?
300
The person who decided what crop would be grown for a sharecropper
Who is the Landlord?
300
When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, this man became president.
Who is Vice President Andrew Johnson?
400
Basic human rights that cannot be taken away (like the right to life, liberty and property)
What are Civil Rights?
400
This amendment gave African American MEN the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
400
One reason the destruction caused by the Civil War affected the production of goods and services in the North
What is there was damage to the north also, transportation was hindered, they didn't get the supplies they needed from farms in the South, carpetbaggers moved South so they had less people to work, etc.
400
Main cash crops in the South after the Civil War
What is cotton or sugar?
400
These people moved from the North to the South in hopes of helping rebuild, then starting businesses.
Who are carpetbaggers?
500
A concept in which every person should be treated fairly, and the government must go through specific rules and procedures before taking away a person's rights
What is due process?
500
The steps to adding an amendment
What is 2/3 vote by Congress (the Senate AND the House of Representatives), then a 3/4 vote by State Legislature
500
The main goal of Reconstruction
What is to unite the North and South
500
Sharecroppers would stay in this cycle year after year because they could never pay their landlord enough for land, tools, etc. and got trapped into coming back another year
What is debt?
500
These people were from the South, but they supported Reconstruction, so they were disliked
Who are scalawags?
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