WorksheetsUnit 6 Vocabulary (Bayou Bridges Grade 7)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Black Codes were/was
laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans
laws passed that provided economic support for freedmen
an identifying number assigned to individual slaves
The system under which individual families contracted with landowners to work a plot of land in return for a portion of the crop is called
community garden
sharecropping
land rent
Coup d'état
Radical
Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.
An emancipated slave.
The ability to read and write.
The separation by an institution of people or things from others or a main group based on race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender.
Civil Rights
Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.
The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
The ability to read and write.
The separation by an institution of people or things from others or a main group based on race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender.
any code of law that limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Freedmen's Bureau
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Civil Rights Act of 1866
rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed
Adoption
Civil Liberties
Reconstruction
Preservation
Reconciliation
Radical Republicans
Group of representatives that were very extreme with their views and believed the government should be tougher on the South for leaving the Union.
People that describe themselves as NOT excessive or extreme in their political beliefs.
A northerner who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era to take advantage of the unsettled conditions (to make money).
Southerners that wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow the southern states to rule themselves.
a change or addition to the Constitution.
Bill
Law
Constitution
Amendment
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Abolished slavery (though allowed for criminals to be made to do work without pay)
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
An unkind term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities
carpetbaggers
scalawags
freedmen
Ku Klux Klan
A synonym for legislation is
laws
blockade
voting
control
What does Impeachment mean?
Formally accusing a government official of misconduct
Helping formerly enslaved African Americans
Migrating to Kansas
Using prisoners as laborers.
What is the process of formally accusing a government official of wrongdoing called?
Impeachment
Convict Leasing
Exodusters
Freedmen
This was established so that citizens had to pay a tax in order to register to vote.
Jim Crow tax
Wade Davis Tax
15th Amendment
Poll tax
Southern law passed that stated that only men whose grandfathers voted before 1865 could vote. Another way to have African Americans not vote.
Jim Crow Law
Grandfather Clause
15th Amendment
Black Codes
Tests given to citizens to tests their ability to read and write before being able to vote.
Literacy Tests
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Moderate
What is the vocabulary term for a change or addition to something (such as the Constitution)?
Reconstruction
Amendment
Impeachment
Black Codes
A change to the Constitution is called an __________.
The 13th
The Preamble
Democracy
Amendment
Ratification means
Which of the following vocabulary terms BEST connects to this political cartoon?
suffrage
Black Codes
reconcile
abolish
to restore to harmony; to settle or resolve differences; to come together
suffrage
reconcile
Black Codes
abolish
The accusation of illegal misconduct from a public official is known as what?
Incarceration
Election
Impeachment
Referendum
What term describes the process of bringing the Southern states back into the Union after the Civil War?
Rehabilitation
Reconstruction
Reconciliation
Reformation
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
19th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?
To enforce Black Codes
To promote industrialization in the North
To assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South
To provide economic support to Southern plantation owners
any of the liberties and freedoms citizens are supposed to have according to the Constitution and its amendments:
Civil rights
a sudden and illegal takeover of government by force:
What does VETO mean?
relating to a group of civilians organized in a military fashion
What is the part of the government responsible for making laws?
an official in state government who ranks second to the governor:
a person or group that is not likely to win:
a civil division in Louisiana, comparable to a county in other states:
person who collects and reports secret information about other governments or countries:
Secret agent
a desire to hurt another person:
favoring large or widespread changes:
Branch of government that deals with lawmaking
Executive Branch
Judicial branch
Legislative Branch
The right to vote
sufferage
reconstruction
amendment
Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public (in schools, on public transportation, etc.)
groups
segregation
slavery
equal rights
Individual rights guaranteed by a constitution
Civil Rights
amendments
law
treaty
Definition: to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
filibustering
object
overturn
veto
The Freedman's Bureau was
a group to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South
an organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners
an organization made up freedmen
a group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the U.S.
Which of the following best describes Black Codes?
Laws that gave African Americans the right to vote
Codes given to Black people that allowed them to purchase property
Laws put in place that restricted Black people's civil rights and ability to own property
Codes that helped former slaves find heir lost family members from different parts of the country
The accusation of illegal misconduct from a public official is known as what?
Incarceration
Election
Impeachment
Referendum
Which of the following best describes a sharecopper?
A person who rents land to grow crops using their OWN tools and supplies and decides what is grown
A person land to grow crops but does NOT have their own supplies and can't decide what is grown
A person who only plants cotton in the North and owns their own farm
I person who is forced to work in a factory until they can afford to work their own farm in the south
Which group of people does the picture and quote above make reference to during the Reconstruction Era?
Freed African Americans
Carpetbaggers
Southern military leaders
Northern politicians
Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called for ________ and preservation of the Union over punishing the South.
Emancipation
Reconciliation
Voting Rights
Segregation
Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to
limit the movement of African Americans
make it more difficult for African Americans to vote
improve the lives of African Americans
give more educational opportunities to African Americans.
