Reconstruction Era Vocabulary

Government agency helped freedmen get food, clothing, medical care, education

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 13th Amendment

• Sharecropping

The 13th Amendment ended _______ in the United States.

Laws that limited the rights of freedmen

• Poll tax

• Black Codes

• Segregation

What was "segregation" ?

• violence

• more taxes

• legal separation of the races of people

The 14th Amendment...

• Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including people who had been enslaved.

• Gave African American men over 21 the ability to vote.

• means separate but equal.

The 15th Amendment gave African American men over 21 the right to ____.

Sharecropping is...

• Freedmen farmed on someone else's land.

  Freedmen gave part of their crop to the owner.

• separate but equal

• When voters pay a tax when they vote.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.3

Poll tax is when voters must pay a tax each time they ____.

Literacy Test

• Law that says all people must learn to read.

• Voters were required to read and explain part of the Constitution before they could vote.

• How to graduate from high school.

The Ku Klux Klan was...

• A club that tried to protect the rights of African American people.

• A school

• The Klan used violence and fear to keep people from voting.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1