Unit 2 Vocabulary Practice

Match the following

• all people have the same rights and legal protections

• Equal Protection

• The process of reuniting the country after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• someone elected to Congress who represents the people

• Servitude

• the state of being enslaved

• Citizenship

• A person who has duties and also responsibilities, legally part of a country

• Delegates

Match the following

• protected by law

• Jim Crow Laws

• hospitals, jails, courts, etc

• State Institutions

• opposed civil rights for African Americans after the Civil War

• Under the Law

• soldiers from the U.S. army, sent to the south during Reconstruction

• Federal Troops

• Laws that segregated African-American and white southerners from each other

• Democrats (1870s)

The ​​ (a)   was an idea that showed Confederate states and soldiers as heroic.

• Lost Cause Movement
• Reconstruction Act
• Heroes of the Confederacy Movement

​ (a)   were created to make sure African Americans were an inexpensive labor force with limited freedom.

• Black Codes
• Jim Crow
• 14th Amendment

The period after the Civil War when the southern states were brought back into the United States and newly-freed slaves found their place in society is known as the

• Destruction

• Reconstruction

• Reworked

• Rewind

Southern laws that discriminated against former slaves and segregated blacks and whites after the Civil War were known as

• Lincoln Laws

• Confederate Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Jefferson Davis Laws

What term is used to describe when people are separated because of differences like race or religion?

• segregation

• convergent

• divergent

• destructive