Reconstruction Vocabulary
What does the word "Reconstruction" actually mean?
Rebuilding
What does the word "amendment" mean?
change
Give one example of segregation after the Civil War.
separate bathrooms, schools, bus seats, etc.
List two challenges did Virginia experience after the Civil War?
Banks closed, money had no value
What were the "3 sister" crops?
corn, beans, squash
What is the term used to describe a less populated "country" area?
Rural
The ______________ Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th
List 2 ways African Americans voting rights were still "limited" although they were technically allowed to vote:
poll tax, literacy tests
Explain sharecropping.
Helped poor white farmers and newly freed slaves by allowing them to "rent" land from wealthy white men and pay them with a share of the crops
Discovery
What does the word "segregation" mean?
separation
The _____________ Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th
Laws that made segregation acceptable were _____________________________.
Jim Crow Laws
How did sharecropping ultimately have a negative impact on African Americans?
Landowners took advantage of sharecroppers, making it difficult for them to make money.
Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
What is the term used to describe a highly populated and industrialized area?
Urban
The ____________ Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States.
14th
separate, equal
The government agency that helped newly freed African Americans by providing shelter, food, education, and healthcare was called the ____________________________.
Who wrote the Constitution?
What does the word "discrimination" mean?
unfair treatment (dislike) based on race, religion, gender or other factors
Explain the effect of the 14th Amendment on African Americans.
It gave them citizenship and automatic rights if they were born in the United States.
Discrimination can occur based on many factors, race being one. Name a different factor.
gender, religion, etc
__________ ___________ _______________ was one of the first African American elected to Congress.
John Mercer Langston
Explain the reason for the American Revolution. Include the names of each side etc.
Freedom from Great Britain
Loyalists supported having a king.
Patriots fought against having a king.