Reconstruction: After the Civil War

What does Reconstruction mean?

• Building a house again

• The period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War

• The right of each United States state to make its own local laws.

• A situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an agreement.

What does Segregation mean?

• The division of groups of people, usually by race

• A large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one type of crop

• A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.

• A technique that farmers use on their farms

What does the word Amendment mean?

• To fix a piece of clothing

• The freeing of a group from slavery

• A military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender

• A change or improvement

What does Impeachment mean?

• To pit a peach

• The act of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a high government official by the House of Representatives

• An official announcement, usually by the government

• A method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender

What does the word Carpetbaggers mean?

• People who bagged carpet

• To murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons

• Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money

• A military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender

What does the word Sharecropping mean?

• A system in which someone who owns land lets someone else “rent” the land to farm it

• Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money

• Someone who shares crops

• The celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War

What does the term "black codes" mean?

• A group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African Americans from owning guns or taking certain types of jobs

• The freeing of a group from slavery

• Codes written in black ink

• The division of groups of people, usually by race

Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 27th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

Which amendment said anyone born in the United States is a citizen in 1868?

• 2nd Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

Which amendment gave African-American men the right to vote in 1869?

• 1st Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 9th Amendment

• 15th Amendment