Chapter 16 Reconstruction - Vocabulary Practice

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A freedmen was required to have a labor contract in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.

• Jim Crow Laws

• sharecropping

• the black codes

• Reconstruction

Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Scalawags were...

• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
• Southern Republicans
• former Confederate Leaders
• African Americans

Amnesty is

• forgiveness for any crimes committed

• bonus money for volunteering for the military

• time spent in jail

• a crime