Society of the South

Reconstruction Vocabulary

Terms to Know

• Reconstruction- the effort, after the civil war, to recognize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• pardon- an official release from punishment for a crime

• provisional government- a temporary government

• nullify- to cancel

Multiple Choice

An official release from punishment for a crime

• nullify

• pardon

• provision

• reconstruction

Multiple Choice

The effort to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Reconstruction

• pardon

• reallow

• readmit

Multiple Choice

A temporary government is

• a short government

• provisional government

• no governmet

• nullify

Multiple Choice

To cancel is to...

• pardon

• nullify

• forgive

• redo

Terms to know

• Juneteenth- June 19th , the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• freedman- a formally enslaved person

• demonstrate- to show, prove or make clear

• blackcodes- laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the civil war

Multiple Choice

A formally enslaved person is...

• free slave

• freedman

• African American

• Confederate

Multiple Choice

To show or make clear

• demonstrate

• hide

• presentation

Multiple Choice

law the limited African Americans

• Southern Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Blackcodes

• Redcodes

Multiple Choice

The day to celebrate in Texas for Emancipation

• Julyteenth

• Juneteenth

• Fourth of July

Terms to know

• Radical Republican- a Republican who believed that congress should direct Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan- a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

• carpetbagger- a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

• scalawag- a white southerner who supported reconstruction

Multiple Choice

A white southerner who supported reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

Multiple Choice

a secret society formed by southern whites to terrorize African Americans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Nazi

• scalawag

Multiple Choice

A northerner in the south working for a Reconstruction government

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• Radical Republican

Multiple Choice

a Republican who believed that congress should redirect Reconstruction

• Real Republican

• Radical Republican

• Racists' Republican