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Important Constitutional Acts
Vocabulary
People of the Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
Rebuilding the South
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Thirteenth Amendment
Which amendment made slavery illegal?
100
A special tax people had to pay before they could vote
What is a poll tax?
100
President Lincoln
Who wanted to reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible?
100
An agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain people in the South
What is the definition of 'Freedmen's Bureau'?
100
He was a newspaper editor, a leader of the New South movement
Who was Henry Grady?
200
Laws that divided the South into 5 districts
What are Reconstruction Acts?
200
The forced separation of Whites and African Americans in public places
What is segregation?
200
Escaped from slavery and began a school for African Americans
Who was Blnache K. Bruce?
200
They helped the freedpeople and certain people in the South
Why did they create the Freedman's Bureau?
200
Textile Production
What was the important industrial development in the South?
300
Gave African American men the right to vote
What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?
300
Jim Crow Laws
What laws enforced segregation?
300
The man who shot President Lincoln
Who is John Wikes Booth?
300
True
True or False: The Freedmen's Bureau established schools.
300
Women did most of the spinning and were valued workers
What did women do in mill life?
400
Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as White Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
400
When the landowner provides the land, tools, and sharecroppers provide the labor
What is sharecropping?
400
Andrew Johnson
Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?
400
African Americans hoped that education would help them to understand and protect their rights and enable them to find better jobs.
How did the Freedmen's Bureau help African Americans?
400
Many people from rural areas came to work in the mills
Who worked in the mills?
500
Gave full rights of citizenship to all people born in the United States
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
500
The process used by a legislativebody to bring charges of wrong-doing against a pubic officail
What is impeachment?
500
A secret society that opposed civil rights for African Americans
Who were the Ku Klux Kaln?
500
It played an important role in establishing schools
How did the Freedmen's Bureau play an important rolein the Reconstruction?
500
Cotton dust and lint filled the air causing asthma, an illness causing brown lung disease
How did the southern life affect mill workers?