Vocabulary
This means to get rid of or do away with
Abolish
This amendment was a law written in 1865. This law abolished slavery in the United States.
13th
Yes or No: Were Black and White people allowed to eat together or use the same bathroom?
No
This means working on a farm, but you receive crops instead of money.
Sharecropping
This means a person who is born in or has followed the law to become a member of a country.
Citizen
This amendment became law in 1868 and said that all people born or naturalized in the United States could become citizens.
14th
Yes or No: Black people started running for positions in the Government?
Yes
Most factories were built where? North or South?
North
This means a group of people that helped formerly enslaved people and poor white people in the Southern states after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
This amendment, which became law in 1870, gave Black men the right to vote. It said that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or whether a person had been enslaved.
15th
What law separated Black and White people?
Jim Crow Laws
Which group of people helped Black and White people with their education?
Freedman's Bureau
This means a series of laws or systems that separated Black people from White people and treated them as less than White people.
Jim Crow Laws
This amendment became law in 1865.
13th
How long did Reconstruction last?
12 years
True or False: Black people still worked for free during Reconstruction?
FALSE
This is the time period in the United States between 1865 and 1877 when the country began to rebuild after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
This amendment became law in 1870
15th
What year did Reconstruction end?
1877
True or False: White Farmers still made a lot of money from their Farms.
False