Reconstruction Worksheet

Laws enacted in the south that enforced segregation, claiming "separate, but equal."

• Jim Crow laws

• Civil Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Voting Rights Act

Last name of the president who declared secession illegal and helped pass the 13th Amendment.

• Lincoln

• Washington

• Jefferson

• Roosevelt

System of farming where farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

Last name of the man who became president after Andrew Johnson.

• Grant

• Lincoln

• Roosevelt

• Washington

The name given to former slaves is:

• Freedmen

• Serfs

• Indentured Servants

• Peasants

This amendment abolished slavery.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Last name of the president who led the country through the Civil War.

• Washington

• Jefferson

• Lincoln

• Roosevelt

Laws enacted in the south that took away freedmen's civil rights.

• Jim Crow laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil Rights Act

• Reconstruction Acts

This amendment gave all men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

A plan to reunite the country after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Manifest Destiny

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Industrialization