Unit 1 Key Terms_8th Grade

What is the term used to describe a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding to avoid arrest?

• Carpetbagger

• Fugitive

• Freedmen

• Abolition

Which laws were enacted in the Southern United States to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Radical Republicans

• Segregation

What was the purpose of a poll tax in the context of voting rights?

• To fund public schools

• To restrict voting rights of certain groups

• To support local infrastructure

• To encourage voter participation

Which agricultural system involved farmers working a portion of land in return for a share of the crops produced?

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbagging

• Emancipation

• Secession

What term describes the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment?

• Abolition

• Segregation

• Emancipation

• Reconstruction

What was the Emancipation Proclamation intended to achieve during the Civil War?

• To end the Civil War

• To free enslaved people in Confederate states

• To establish new states

• To create poll taxes

Who were the "Carpetbaggers" during the Reconstruction era?

• Southern landowners

• Northern opportunists who moved to the South

• Freed slaves

• Confederate soldiers

What was the purpose of literacy tests in the context of voting?

• To ensure voters were educated

• To disenfranchise African American voters

• To promote literacy among citizens

• To assess political knowledge

What movement aimed to end the practice of slavery in the United States?

• Secession

• Abolition

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

What were the Jim Crow Laws designed to enforce?

• Racial equality

• Racial segregation

• Economic development

• Political unity