Reconstruction Vocabulary

What was the deadliest war in American history? Americans fought Americans.

• World War II

• American Civil War

• Revolutionary War

• Reconstruction

What were the northern states known as? This is an old-fashioned term for the United States.

• Union

• Confederacy

What were the 11 states that wanted to secede from the United States known as? These were southern states.

• Union

• Confederacy

What do we call the rebuilding of the country after the Civil War?

The government for the whole country that is located in Washington D.C.

• state government

• federal government

amnesty

• enemy

• friendship

• pardon

• reconstruct

liberated people

• black codes

• sharecropping

• freedmen

• civil rights

U.S. government set up this program to help freedmen and white refugees after Civil War. Provided food, clothing, medical care, and education.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Freedmen's Office

• Reconstruction Act of 1877

• 14th Amendment

An agreement in which each side gives up something

• reconstruction

• civil war

• freedmen

• compromise

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

• Freedmen's Bureau

• black codes

• Compromise of 1877

• Ku Klux Klan