Study Guide – Reconstruction Quiz
Reconstruction
Period after the civil war to rebuild the south
13th Amendment
No one shall be a slave
14th Amendment
All people born in the US are American Citizens
15th Amendment
All MALE citizens have the right to vote
Black Codes
Laws that still made African-Americans feel like slave
Poll Tax
Money African-Americans have to pay before they
can vote
Literacy tests
African-Americans needs to pass a reading and
writing test before they can vote
Radical Republicans
wanted to send military to south to enforce 14th and
15th amendments
carpetbaggers
northerner who came south to help set up state
governments
scalawags
southerner who supported northern military coming
to help enforce 14th and 15th amendments
Jim Crow Laws
laws that segregated people by race