Reconstruction Vocab

Intro to Unit 6: Reconstruction Vocab

Amendment: a minor change or addition to a text.

• There are 27 amendments to the original U.S Constitution

• During this unit, we are learning about the 13th,14th, and 15th amendments

1. Amendment: a minor change or addition to a text.

There are 27 amendments to the original U.S Constitution.

During this unit, we are learning about the 13th,14th, and 15th amendments

2. Prejudices: a feeling of unfair dislike directed against an individual or a group because of some characteristic.

3. Segregation: practice or policy of separating a race, class, or group from the rest of society.

Multiple Choice

a minor change or addition to a text

• amendment

• jim crow laws

• prejudice

Multiple Choice

Which amendments will we learn about in unit 6?

• 13th & 15th

• 13th, 14th, 15th

• 18th

• None

4. Jim Crow Laws: laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people

5. Sharecroppers: people  who rent plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.

Multiple Choice

These laws enforced segregation between white people and black people

• Jim Crow Laws

• Jimmy Carter Laws

• 13th Amendment

6. The Freedmen’s Bureau: a program established by Congress that provided food, housing and medical aid to Freedmen (former slaves)

Multiple Choice

During Reconstruction era - people who rent plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop

• renters

• sharecroppers

• freedmen