WorksheetsReconstruction Era Vocabulary
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
Government agency helped freedmen get food, clothing, medical care, education
Freedmen's Bureau
13th Amendment
Sharecropping
The 13th Amendment ended (a) in the United States.
Laws that limited the rights of freedmen
Poll tax
Black Codes
Segregation
What was "segregation" ?
violence
more taxes
legal separation of the races of people
The 14th Amendment...
Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including people who had been enslaved.
Gave African American men over 21 the ability to vote.
means separate but equal.
The 15th Amendment gave African American men over 21 the right to (a) .
Sharecropping is...
Freedmen farmed on someone else's land.
Freedmen gave part of their crop to the owner.
separate but equal
When voters pay a tax when they vote.
Poll tax is when voters must pay a tax each time they (a) .
Literacy Test
Law that says all people must learn to read.
Voters were required to read and explain part of the Constitution before they could vote.
How to graduate from high school.
The Ku Klux Klan was...
A club that tried to protect the rights of African American people.
A school
The Klan used violence and fear to keep people from voting.
Supreme Court case (1896) that said, "separate but equal" was legal for all public places.
Laws separating whites and African American people in places like schools, restaurants, busses...
A law that restricted (limited) voting.
Poll Tax
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
Laws the limited rights of freedmen
When freedmen farmed on land that was owned by someone else. Freedmen SHARED part of their crop with the owner.
Ended slavery (enslavement of people) in the United States.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Voters had to read and explain part of the Constitution before they could vote. (Restricted voters)
Literacy Test
Poll tax
Jim Crow Laws
