RECONSTRUCTION TRIVIA Vocabulary, Key Events, and Important People Review

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Forgiveness granted by the government to a group of people Amnesty

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Man who becomes President after the assassination of Lincoln Andrew Johnson

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War Black Codes

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Former slave who became a Senator after the Civil War Blanche Bruce

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? A negative nickname for a northern white who went to the South after the Civil War to start a business or pursue a political career Carpetbagger

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Former minister who became the 1 st African American Senator Hiram Revels

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Men and women who were legally freed from slavery after the Civil War Freedmen

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Black man arrested for sitting in a white coach Homer Plessy

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 Grandfather Clause

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Famous actor who assassinated President Lincoln John Wilkes Booth

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Process of bringing formal charges against a government official Impeachment

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Plan saying that as soon as 10% of the voters swear an oath to loyalty a state may be readmitted to the Union Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Exam to see if a person can read and write; used in the South to restrict voting rights Literacy Test

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Organization created to provide emergency relief to those displaced by the war Freedmen’s Bureau

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Personal tax to be paid before voting Poll Tax

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Amendment stating that there will no longer be slavery in the United States 13 th Amendment

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Southern white who opposed secession Scalawag

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Amendment stating that all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens 14 th Amendment

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Enforced separation of the races Segregation

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Amendment stating that no state can stop someone from voting based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude 15 th Amendment

THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD? Person who rents a plot of land and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop Sharecropper