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Unit 6 - Reconstruction Vocab

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jim Crow is...

a)
a famous jazz musician from the 1940s
b)
a style of dance popular in the 1920s
c)
a system of racial segregation and discrimination in the United States
d)
a type of bird found in the southern United States
2.

These are the basic privileges in which every citizen of a nation should have.

a)

Civil Rights

b)

Citizenship

c)

Segregation

d)

Manifest Destiny

3.

This is the idea that is was the right by god of Americans to move west

a)

Manifest Spirit

b)

Rights

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

of course

4.

An "immigrant" is...

a)
A person who is born in a foreign country
b)
A person who travels frequently for work
c)
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
d)
A person who never leaves their home country
5.

This office was set up by the government to provide education and other resources to Black Americans after the Civil War

a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
Emancipation Bureau
c)
Union Bureau
d)
Confederate Bureau
6.

This term means to change or alter the Constitution

a)
Revolution
b)
Destruction
c)
Amendment
d)
Reconstruction
7.

The purposeful separation of people based on race

a)
Equality
b)
Integration
c)

Segregation

d)
Diversity
8.

The era after the Civil War in which the nation tried to build itself back together

a)
Destruction era
b)
Reconstruction era
c)
Reformation era
d)
Separation era
9.

To be an official member of a nation and enjoy the privileges it includes

a)
immigration
b)
residency
c)
naturalization
d)
citizenship
10.

This can include the ability to vote, own land without a husband, and have control over their own bodies...

a)
Property rights
b)
Human rights
c)

Women's Rights

d)
Animal rights
11.

What was the original goal of Reconstruction?

a)

to reunite the nation and rebuild southern states without slavery

b)

to revive the economies of the north and the south

c)

To provide newly freed slaves with land and money

12.

The 13th Amendment

a)

gave job opportunities to white Americans and freedmen

b)

made the future free from slavery

c)

gave all African Americans the right to vote

13.

The 14th amendment

a)

granted suffrage for all

b)

officially ended slavery

c)

granted citizenship to freedmen

14.

The 15th amendment

a)

granted all male suffrage

b)

officially ended slavery

c)

granted freedom of worship to all freedmen

15.

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

a)

community garden

b)

sharecropping

c)

land rent

16.

Northerners who went south after the Civil War and were accused of taking advantage of southerners were called

a)

carpetbaggers

b)

scalawag

c)

secessionists

17.

A Southerner who supported the policies of Reconstruction was known as a what by Southerners?

a)

Grafter

b)

Pirate

c)

Scalawag

d)

Carpetbagger

18.

This terrorist group opposed all efforts fo the Reconstruction Era

a)

Red Shirts

b)

Klu Klux Klan

c)

White League

d)

Knights of the South