Reconstruction Unit Vocabulary

What is a primary source?

• created later by someone that did not experience an event firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about.

• artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created during the time period being studied.

• restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished.

  13th Amendment- abolished slavery

What is a secondary source?

• artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created during the time period being studied.

• Supreme Court Case that said segregation based on race but not unconstitutional (blacks were seen as separate but equal under the law)

• created later by someone that did not experience an event firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about.

What does the term 'social' refer to?

• Anything involving money

• Anything involving politics and laws

• Anything involving society and people

What does the term 'political' refer to?

• Anything involving money

• Anything involving politics and laws

• Anything involving people and society

What does the term 'economic' refer to?

• Anything involving money

• Anything involving politics and laws

• Anything involving people and society

When did the Reconstruction period take place?

• 1930's after the stock market crashed and many people lost money, property, homes, etc.

• 1960's when people were fighting for equality and civil rights.

• 1865-1877; took place after the U.S. Civil War; a time of rebuilding the country.

What is segregation?

• to make something illegal/not allowed

• separation based on race enforced by the law.

• combining elements into something that is one.

What is integration?

• combining elements into something that is one.

• separation based on race enforced by the law.

• to get rid of/the end

What was the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson about?

• legal agreement where a landowner allows a person to use part of their land for farming in exchange for a portion of the crops.

• restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished.

• Supreme Court Case that said segregation based on race but not unconstitutional (blacks were seen as separate but equal under the law)

What does it mean to legalize something?

• to make something illegal/not allowed

• to make something legal

•  to make an official change