Chapter 13 A Changing Nation

What is the definition of Reconstruction?

• The period before the American Civil War when the United States government attempted to rebuild and reform the Southern states
• The period after World War II when the United States government attempted to rebuild and reform Europe
• The period after the American Revolutionary War when the United States government attempted to rebuild and reform the British colonies
• The period after the American Civil War when the United States government attempted to rebuild and reform the Southern states

What is the definition of black codes?

• Laws that promoted racial equality during the Reconstruction era.
• Laws that protected the rights of African Americans during the Reconstruction era.
• Laws that abolished slavery in the United States.
• Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans during the Reconstruction era.

What is the definition of acquitted?

• Declared not guilty in a court of law.
• Being held in custody without trial.
• Found guilty in a court of law.
• Pleading guilty in a court of law.

What is the definition of freedmen?

• Individuals who were granted freedom by the government after the American Civil War.
• Formerly enslaved people who were emancipated after the American Civil War.
• People who were born into freedom after the American Civil War.
• Former slaves who were freed by their owners.

What is the definition of sharecropping?

• A system of agriculture where a landowner rents out the land to a tenant for a fixed fee.
• A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crops produced.
• A system of agriculture where a landowner sells the land to a tenant for a fixed price.
• A system of agriculture where a landowner hires workers to cultivate the land and pays them a fixed wage.

What is the definition of secret ballot?

• A voting method in which a voter's choices are publicly displayed.
• A voting method in which a voter's choices are randomly selected.
• A voting method in which a voter's choices are influenced by others.
• voting method that doesn't allow anyone to know how a person has voted

What is the definition of segregation?

• The act of bringing people or things together based on certain characteristics.
• keeping people in seperate groups based on race

• The act of isolating people or things based on certain characteristics.
• The process of integrating people or things based on certain characteristics.

What is the definition of prospector?

• A prospector is a person who searches for oil reserves.
• A prospector is a person who searches for archaeological artifacts.
• person who searches for gold, silver, or other mineral resources

• A prospector is a person who searches for lost treasure.

What is the definition of boom?

• A type of tree
• A small explosion
• A sudden increase in economic activity
• time of fast economic or population growth

What is the definition of bust?

• A slang term for a failed business venture.
• time of fast economic decline

• A term used in poker to describe a losing hand.
• A type of dance move.