Unit 14 Vocabulary Review

Jim Crow Laws

• Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.

• Laws that promote equal rights for all citizens.

• Laws that prohibit interracial marriage.

• Laws that provide free education for all races.

reconstruction

• period of rebuilding the South & readmitting Southern states into the Union

• time of economic prosperity in the North

• era of civil rights movements in the 1960s

• period of industrialization in the United States

radical

• Favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms.

• A person who avoids extreme views and actions.

• A term used to describe moderate political views.

• A belief in maintaining the status quo.

sharecropping

• A system where farmers own their land and crops

• A method of farming where farmers work land for an owner and receive a share of the crop

• A type of farming that requires no equipment or seeds

• A practice where farmers pay rent in cash instead of crops

assassination

• murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons

• a sudden attack on a military base

• the act of taking a hostage for ransom

• a legal execution of a criminal

poll tax

• A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

• A tax levied on the sale of goods and services

• A fee charged for obtaining a driver's license

• A tax imposed on property ownership

segregation

• the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

• the unification of different races and classes

• the process of integrating various social groups

• the act of promoting equality among different classes

impeachment

• Charges against a president approved by a majority of the House of Representatives

• A formal agreement between two countries

• The process of electing a new president

• A type of judicial review

Black Codes

• Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

• Federal laws aimed at promoting civil rights for all citizens

• State laws that encouraged the education of former slaves

• Legislation that provided land grants to freed slaves

servitude

• a lack of freedom; forced labor

• a state of complete freedom

• a form of voluntary work

• a type of government service