Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz Review

A federal agency set up after the Civil War to help former slaves and poor whites obtain food, clothing, and shelter and locate missing family members.

• Ku Klux Klan

• 13th Amendment

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

A labor system in which freedmen and poor whites contracted to work a plot of land for the landowner in exchange for a portion of the crop at harvest time

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Slavery

• Freedmen's Bureau

A labor system in which freedmen and poor whites have the tools and supplies to farm but do not have land to farm, so they  worked someone else’s land for wages or a share of the crops

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Slavery

Abraham Lincoln’s and Andrew Johnson’s plans for reconstruction of the South following the Civil War. 

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

Divided the unreconstructed states into military districts, required the states to ratify the 14th Amendment, write new constitutions, and guarantee African American males over the age of 21 the write to vote.

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

Outlaws slavery

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendement

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Guarantees citizenship and equal rights to all citizens born in the United States except for Native Americans

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Guaranteed all male citizens the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendent

• 15th Amendment

Secret society formed in 1866 to restore Democratic control of the South and keep former slaves powerless, they used terror and violence to accomplish their goals

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Black Legislators

 Sixty-nine African-Americans who served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or served as members of the state legislature, they were removed from their seats after 1876.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Black Legislators