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Reconstruction Era Vocabulary

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Government agency helped freedmen get food, clothing, medical care, education

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Sharecropping

2.

The 13th Amendment ended (a)   in the United States.

3.

Laws that limited the rights of freedmen

a)

Poll tax

b)

Black Codes

c)

Segregation

4.

What was "segregation" ?

a)

violence

b)

more taxes

c)

legal separation of the races of people

5.

The 14th Amendment...

a)

Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including people who had been enslaved.

b)

Gave African American men over 21 the ability to vote.

c)

means separate but equal.

6.

The 15th Amendment gave African American men over 21 the right to (a)   .

7.

Sharecropping is...

a)

Freedmen farmed on someone else's land.

Freedmen gave part of their crop to the owner.

b)

separate but equal

c)

When voters pay a tax when they vote.

8.

Poll tax is when voters must pay a tax each time they (a)   .

9.

Literacy Test

a)

Law that says all people must learn to read.

b)

Voters were required to read and explain part of the Constitution before they could vote.

c)

How to graduate from high school.

10.

The Ku Klux Klan was...

a)

A club that tried to protect the rights of African American people.

b)

A school

c)

The Klan used violence and fear to keep people from voting.

11.

Supreme Court case (1896) that said, "separate but equal" was legal for all public places.

a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Roe v. Wade
12.

Laws separating whites and African American people in places like schools, restaurants, busses...

a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
Civil Rights Act
13.

A law that restricted (limited) voting.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

15th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

14.

Laws the limited rights of freedmen

a)
Black Codes
b)
Civil Rights Act
c)
Voting Rights Act
15.

When freedmen farmed on land that was owned by someone else. Freedmen SHARED part of their crop with the owner.

a)
Tenant Farming
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Serfdom
16.

Ended slavery (enslavement of people) in the United States.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

17.

Voters had to read and explain part of the Constitution before they could vote. (Restricted voters)

a)

Literacy Test

b)

Poll tax

c)

Jim Crow Laws