1. Vocabulary and Chapter Review
Chapter 8: After the War
Vocabulary and Chapter Review

2. reconstruction
The time after the U.S. Civil War; a rebuilding of the south.

3. successor
one who follows, such as the next person in a political office

4. repeal
Canceled
To cancel something such as a law

5. assassinate
To kill someone; usually a murder for political reasons

6. black codes
Laws passed to limit the freedom of African Americans

7. radical
Having extreme or very strong views

8. Political party
A group of people who agree on how to run the state or country

9. carpetbaggers
A person who came to the south from the North after the Civil War; some came to help Southerners, but others came seeking profit or political power

10. scalawags
A white Southerner who cooperated with the military government during Reconstruction

11. Reconstruction
The time after the Civil War is called?

12. Abraham Lincoln
During the last months of the Civil War, President ????
made plans to bring the country back together.

13. House of Representatives
After freedmen were allowed to vote, 3 black men served in the U.S. ?????
during Reconstruction

14. scalawags
Who were the white Southerners who worked with the military government to make sure the Alabama state government was run as it should be.

15. John Wilkes Booth
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865?

16. About 625,000
Approximately how many people were killed in the Civil War?

17. “build again”
The word “reconstruction ” means ?

18. Ordinance of Secession
In order for the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union, each had to repeal the ???

19. freedmen
After the Civil War, former slaves were called?

20. They required states to have black and white citizens work together to write a new constitution.
During Reconstruction the southern states were placed under military rule because?

21. Freedman’s Bureau
The government group that was established to help the freed slaves was the?

22. Used fear and violence to intimidate people.
The Ku Klux Klan did what?

23. The Constitution of 1868
What document led to the readmission of Alabama to the United States?

24. It gave freedmen full rights as citizens.
The 14th Amendment did what?

25. Andrew Johnson
Who was U.S. President during Reconstruction after President Lincoln was assassinated?

26. Abraham Lincoln
President during the Civil War who made plans to bring the country back together, but was killed before he could carry out his plan.

27. Benjamin Sterling Turner
The first African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama.

28. George Houston
He was against secession before the Civil War; Alabama Governor from who helped lead the state out of Reconstruction.

29. Maria Fearing
A former slave, who at age 33, entered first grade and eventually became a teacher.