HEART AND SOUL VOCABULARY TEST

The act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something.  The period from 1865 to 1877 in which the southern states that had seceded during the American Civil War rejoined the United States is

• abolish

• reconstruction

• Jim Crow

A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.

• sharecropper

• cotton farming

• plantation

An agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour

• sharecropper

• black-eyed peas

• plantation

Beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable

• plants

• black-eyed peas

• sharecrop

An era during which local and state laws enforced the legal segregation of white and black citizens from the 1870s into the 1960s.

• constitution

• abolitionist

• Jim Crow

Relating to religion or religious belief.

• spiritual

• slavery

• constitution

A set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works.

• amendment

• constitution

• grandfather clause

People who were opposed to slavery began a movement to abolish, or end, the practice

• abolitionists

• slaves

• Ku Klux Klan

A network of people, both whites and free Blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to states in the North and to the country of Canada, where slavery was illegal.

• underground railroad

• Jim Crow

• black & white crew

Protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin.

• 15th amendment

• Jim Crow laws

• Grandfather Clause