Vocabulary
What is unfair treatment of people?
Discrimination
Which amendment abolished slavery in the U.S?
13TH Amendment
Which amendment gave citizenship to anyone who was born in the U.S?
14TH Amendment
Negative opinion/feeling about someone without a reason (*pre-judging)
Prejudice
Virginia State University (VSU)
Which court ruling stated local governments could segregate schools/colleges, water fountains, and most places where people gathered?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is the separation of people based on race, culture, religion?
Segregation
These laws legally separated races
Jim Crow Laws
This Amendment stated.....Everyone had the right to vote no matter their race/color
15th Amendment
When a person rents farmland and pays the landowner with a share of the crop
Sharecropping
Who was the First African American elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia?
John Mercer Langston
Which two groups of people participated in sharecropping in Virginia after the war?
Freedmen (recently freed black people)
Poor white farmers
Time period after the Civil War when the country was Rebuilding & bringing the southern states back to the Union
Reconstruction
What government organization helped newly freed black people with schooling, school supplies, and some medical care?
Freedmen's Bureau
Is this order true or false?
The Civil War Ended
Jim Crow Laws were passed
Freedmen's Bureau was created
FALSE
Civil War ended
Freedmen's Bureau was created
Jim Crow Laws were passed