Reconstruction Key Terms

What is Reconstruction?

•  The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union following the end of the Civil War

• Creating something from scratch

• The process of allowing the States to breakaway to form their own country

• Making a Sandwich from Scratch

What is the Ten Percent Plan?

•  Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the United States before that state could rejoin the Union.

  
  

• Andrew John plan, to only allow 10 percent of freed slaves to vote in the south

• The Radical Republican plan that required that 10% of the budget goes to rebuilding the south

• Mr. King's Plan to give everyone a 10% in his class who picked this answer

What is a southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans?

• Slave laws

• Black Code

• Freedpeople laws

• Poll Tax

What is Freedman's Bureau?

• An organization established by Congress to provide relief for formerly enslaved people and certain other poor people

• A social program aim at helping white people in the south rebuild after the Civil War

• An organization that helps free people from slavery

• A fancy governement dinner

What is Reconstruction Acts?

What is the definition of Freedpeople?

Poll Tax

• A Special Tax people had to pay before they could vote

• A tax that someone who is driving had to pay

• A poll a freed slave had to pay

• Taxes on wooden Polls

What is the Federal Holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States?

What is Segregation?

What is Sharecropping?

• A system in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops

• A system in which farm workers pay cash to rent farmland, supply their own tools, and keep their entire harvest

• Sharing food with one and other

• Cutting down freed slaves fields in order to feed poor Americans