Topic 2 Reconstruction Vocabulary

The Thirteenth Amendment did which of the following?

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

• Abolished slavery

• Established segregation laws

• Allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union

What was Reconstruction?

• The process of industrializing the South

• The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

• A movement to free slaves in the North

• A period of economic decline in the U.S.

What were Black Codes?

• Laws that protected African Americans' rights

• Rules that required the South to rebuild roads

• Laws passed in the South to restrict freed African Americans

• Codes used by abolitionists to communicate secretly

What political party led efforts for Reconstruction?

• Democrats

• Whigs

• Republicans

• Federalists

Who were the Radical Republicans?

• A group that wanted strict punishment for the South

• Southern Democrats who supported Reconstruction

• A faction that sought to reinstate slavery

• A group that pushed for the election of Andrew Johnson

What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?

• Gave all men the right to vote

• Defined citizenship and granted equal protection under the law

• Abolished slavery

• Allowed women to vote

The Fifteenth Amendment granted what right?

• Freedom from slavery

• Citizenship to African Americans

• The right to vote for Black men

• The right to own land

What does the term 'suffrage' mean?

• Economic hardship

• The right to vote

• The right to own property

• The process of segregation

Who were the Carpetbaggers?

• Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction

• Northern Republicans who moved South after the Civil War

• Freed African Americans who ran for office

• Southern farmers who relied on sharecropping

What was Sharecropping?

• A system where landowners provided land in exchange for a share of the crops

• A form of tenant farming where farmers owned their land

• A government program to distribute land

• A Northern economic policy during Reconstruction