Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz

The time period of rebuilding the former Confederate states after the Civil War is know as

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• Reconstruction

• Civil Rights

A person freed from slavery

• Sharcropper

• Freedman

• Peasant

• Slave

Laws passed in the South, just after the Civil War

aimed at controlling freedmen

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 13th Amendment

• Reconstruction Acts

• Black Codes

Name given to Northern whites who moved to the

south after the Civil War and supported the

Republicans

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

• Yankee

• Rebel

To end separation of different races and bring into

equal membership in society

• Segregate

• Integrate

• Separate but Equal

• Jim Crow Laws

System of farming in which a farmer works land for

an owner, who provides equipment and seeds and

receives a share of the crop

• Slavery

• Indentured Servant

• Sharecropper

• Apprenticeship

Settling by agreement or coming together

• Segregate

• Reconciliation

• Integrate

• Discriminate

Farm crop raised to be sold for money

• Natural Resources

• Import

• Export

• Cash Crop

A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be

paid before the person could vote

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather Clause

• Tariff

A method used to prevent African Americans from

voting by voters to read and write at a specified

level

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather Clause

• Tariff