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Vocabulary#1
Reconstruction #1
Vocabulary #2
Reconstruction #2
Vocabulary #3
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Vocabulary term meaning "The time during which the South was rebuilt after the Civil War".
What is Reconstruction?
100
Which amendment to the Constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the United States (except Native Americans)?
What is the 14th amendment?
100
Vocabulary term meaning "A verdict of not guilty".
What is acquittal?
100
Why was President Andrew Johnson NOT impeached?
Because Congress did not have a 2/3 majority vote.
100
Vocabulary term meaning "A Northerner who moved to the South to take part in Reconstruction governments".
What is a carpetbagger?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "The men, women, and children who had once been slaves".
What is freedmen?
200
Which amendment to the Constitution gave African-American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th amendment?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A time of fast economic growth".
What is boom?
200
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A system of working the land in which the worker was paid with a “share” of the crop".
What is a sharecropper?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "Someone who supports something for his or her own gain".
What is a scalawag?
300
Which amendment to the Constitution stated that all slaves were free?
What is the 13th amendment?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "A time of quick economic decline".
What is bust?
300
The money to rebuild the South came from...
What is higher taxes?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "Laws limiting the rights of former slaves in the South".
What is black codes?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A factory in which materials, especially fuels, are cleaned and made into usable products".
What is a refinery?
400
What was the most important work of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is education?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A person living on land granted by the government".
What is homesteader?
400
Who did the Ku Klux Klan terrorize in order to make sure they voted the way they wanted them to?
Who are African American citizens?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "To murder a leader by sudden or secret attack".
What is assassinate?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "A trip made by ranchers to lead cattle to market or to the railroads".
What is a long drive?
500
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and supported Lincoln's policies?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "A voting method in which no one knows how anyone else voted".
What is a secret ballot?
500
The MAIN goal of Reconstruction was...
What is to reunite the North and South?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "Set apart or separated because of race or culture".
What is segregation?