Reconstruction Study Guide

A ____________ is to forgive an offense.

• tenant
• impeach
• pardon
• profit

A ___________ is someone who pays rent. 

• tenant
• carpetbagger
• scalawag
• pardon

A white Southerner who worked with Northerners and African Americans during Reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau
• scalawag
• carpetbagger
• sharecropper

This amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States (including newly freed African Americans), granting them basic rights protected by the Constitution. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The system in which farmers rented land in return for crops is called

• segregation
• sharecropping
• tenant
• discrimination

The practice of keeping racial groups separated is called

• sharecropping
• discrimination
• impeach
• segregation

To charge an official with wrongdoing is called

• impeach
• profit
• pardon
• segregate

This government agency created in 1863 provided food, schools, and medical care to newly freed African Americans and poor whites in the South. 

• carpetbagger
• Freedman's Bureau
• scalawag
• tenant farmer

The money made on goods that exceeds the cost of production 

• impeach
• pardon
• sharecropping
• profit

The Southern name for Northerners who went south during Reconstruction to help local governments or schools.

• carpetbagger
• scalawag
• tenant
• Freedman's Bureau