Unit 10 Vocabulary

A thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• Sharecropper

• Amendment

A holiday celebrated on June 19 to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved people.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• Sharecropper

• Freedmen

Officially ended slavery in the United States

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

Tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent to the owner of the land.

• Sharecropper

• Freedmen

• Oath

• Ratify

Gave the right to vote to African American males

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

Organization created to assist formerly enslaved people

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Freedmen

• Oath

• Abolishment

White supremacist terrorist group that emerged during Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen

• Ratify

• Abolitionist

Enslaved African Americans freed from slavery

• Freedmen

• Sharecropper

• Oaths

• Ratify

Granted citizenship to former enslaved African Americans

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Solemn promise about one's future action or behavior

• Oath

• Abolish

• Ratify

• Reconstruct