HW # 7 Vocabulary: Reconstruction Name_______________________________Block_____
Write a definition/description in your own words for the following:
1. Abraham Lincoln
He believed preserving the Union was
more important that punishing the
South
3. 13th Amendment
freed the slaves (1865)
5. 15th Amendment
Granted black, male suffrage
(voting) rights (1870)
7. sharecroppers
workers who farm the land and
they get paid in crops (part of the
crop is their pay)
2. Robert E. Lee
He urged Southerners to reconcile
with the North and reunite as
Americans. He went on to
become President of Washington
College
4. 14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to the
freedmen (1868)
6. Reconstruction
The time period after the Civil War
when we had to rebuild
(emotionally and physically) the
South.
8. Civil Rights Act of 1866
Anyone born in the U.S. was a full
citizen entitled to equal rights
9. carpetbaggers
a person from the North who went
South after the Civil War to help
the freedmen. Some
carpetbaggers
were dishonest and took
advantage of some Southerners
10.Freedmen’s Bureau
It provided help (aid) to the
freedmen with things such as:
food, clothing, education and
medical help
11.segregation
12.Jim Crow laws/Black Codes
to separate (during Reconstruction
people were separated based on race)
laws that segregated blacks and whites
in public places such as:
schools, restrooms, restaurants, etc.
Jim Crow laws/Black Codes tried to
limit the economic and physical
freedom of former slaves
13.Frederick Douglass
14.Booker T. Washington
was a former slave with a powerful
voice who fought for the adoption of
Constitutional Amendments that
guaranteed voting rights
He believed equality could be achieved
through vocational education and he
accepted social segregation
15.W.E.B. Dubois
16.Plessy v/ Ferguson 1896
He believed in full political, social, and
civil rights for African Americans (he
disagreed with Booker T. Washington’s
philosophy.
This Supreme Court case legalized
segregation Jim Crow laws/Black
Codes.
17. Grandfather clause
A clause that stated if your grandfather
could legally vote then you could legally
vote. This clause permitted whites to
vote without paying a poll tax or
passing a literacy test.
18. Poll tax
19. Literacy Test
In order to vote, you had to pay a poll
tax.
In order to vote, you had to pass a test.
Poll taxes and literacy test were finally abolished with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Voting was unfair until the 1960s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!