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WorksheetsReconstruction Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a temporary government
a)
Freedmen’s Bureau
b)
Provisional government
c)
Radical Republican
d)
Ordinance
2.
laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
a)
Sovereign
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
Juneteenth
d)
Black Codes
3.
a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction
a)
Scalawag
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Radical Republican
d)
Reconstruction
4.
to cancel
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Vigilante
c)
Freedman
d)
Nullify
5.
the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
a)
Ordinance
b)
Juneteenth
c)
Emancipation Proclamation
d)
Reconstruction
6.
. a member of a volunteer committee organized to punish criminals
a)
Freedmen’s Bureau
b)
Black Codes
c)
Vigilante
d)
Provisional government
7.
a formerly enslaved person
a)
Freedman
b)
Vigilante
c)
Radical Republican
d)
Ku Klux Klan
8.
an official release from punishment for a crime
a)
Nullify
b)
Ordinance
c)
Pardon
d)
Juneteenth
9.
the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
a)
Sovereign
b)
Freedmen’s Bureau
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Emancipation Proclamation
10.
helped freed people find jobs and issue food
a)
Pardon
b)
Ordinance
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
Freedmen’s Bureau
11.
a local law or piece of legislation
a)
Ordinance
b)
Sovereign
c)
Pardon
d)
Nullify
12.
a secret group of white men that used violence and terror against African Americans
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freedmen’s Bureau
d)
Scalawags
13.
The executive order that declared enslaved persons in the Confederate states were free
a)
Freedman
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Emancipation Proclamation
d)
Black Codes
14.
Free from outside control; self-governing
a)
Sovereign
b)
Nullify
c)
Vigilante
d)
Pardon
15.
a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Radical Republican
c)
Freedmen’s Bureau
d)
Slave
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