5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 6 Mrs. Thornburg’s Vocabulary for Lessons 4 and 5
What do we call the period when the South rejoined the Union?
Reconstruction
Which amendment declared that slavery would not be allowed to exist in the United States?
13th Amendment
What do we call laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans?
Jim Crow laws
What do we call laws that limited the rights of former slaves to travel, vote, and work in certain jobs?
Black Codes
What do we call the Amendment that gave all men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What is to become a citizen?
Citizenship
What do we call an organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites?
Freedman’s Bureau
What do we call firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period?
Primary source
What do we call the right to a fair trial?
Due process of law
What do we call the amendment that declared that states could not limit the rights of citizens; this amendment gave citizenship to African Americans?
14th Amendment
What do we call the forced separation of the African American and white race?
Segregation
What do we call a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop?
Sharecropping
What do we call information from someone who did not witness an event?
Secondary source