1. The Reconstruction Period
Unit 4 Vocabulary
The Reconstruction Period

2. Jim Crow Laws
Laws Southern states passed to prevent former slaves from having the same equal rights as whites.

3. Freedmen’s Bureau
An organization that supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing, education, medicine, etc.

4. Sharecropping
A way in which freedmen could work and plantation owners would have laborers
Not always a legitimate form of labor/work

5. Due Process = Fair Due Process
The American legal system states that ever person must be treated fairly.
Due Process = Fair

6. Ratify
To approve, confirm, accept
YES

7. Amendment
A change made to a bill or motion

8. 13th Amendment
Made slavery illegal

9. 14th Amendment
Gave citizenship to freed slaves

10. 15th Amendment
Gave all men the right to vote

11. 19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote

12. 23rd Amendment
Gave people living in Washington, D.C. the right to vote

13. 24th Amendment
Cannot charge a poll tax to vote

14. 26th Amendment
Set voting age to 18 years of age

15. Bank
A place where people can put their money to be held safely.

16. Government Functions to serve the people of its nation
Provides services and sets taxes

17. Household
People that live within your house
People are resources

18. Private Business
Private businesses drive the US economy. They produce the goods and services that consumers buy.

19. Producer
Businesses or individuals that make goods or provides services

20. Service
The act of doing/providing a task for a person

21. Profit
The money that is made after a product is sold and the initial production cost has been deducted

22. Consumer
The individual/business that uses a product or service

23. Goods
Material items that can be purchased and or consumed