Vocab Quiz Reconstruction

1. to revoke or withdraw formally or officially; usually refers to a law

• repeal
• approve
• enact
• cancel

laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen.

• Slave Codes
• Segregation laws
• Jim Crow laws
• Black Codes

to pass a law or amendment

• ratify

• repeal

• change

• approve

farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop.

• landlords
• sharecroppers
• tenants
• merchants

Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.

• Secession period
• Emancipation period
• Civil War period
• Congressional Reconstruction period

a time of major change in the state following the devastation of the Civil War..

• Reconstruction
• Industrialization
• Renaissance
• Revolution

Reconstruction period where the military took responsibly for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.

• Military Reconstruction

• Rebellion period
• Secession period
• Civil War period

terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Legislators

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Bureau

farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, tenant farmers usually owned their own farming equipment.

• Sharecroppers
• Landowners
• Tenant farmers
• Farm animals

federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves (freedmen).

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Underground Railroad
• Jim Crow Laws
• Emancipation Proclamation