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UNIT 1: Reconstruction and the West
Vocab: Define each of the following terms in 5 words or less. Your definition should apply the
term from the CURRENT UNIT. It should not be a general definition; rather, it should display
your understanding of the term.
TERM
1. 13th Amendment
DEFINITION (must be 5 words or less)
Abolish slavery
2. 14th Amendment
Equal Protection; Civil Rights
3. 15th Amendment
Universal MALE suffrage; voting
4. Andrew Johnson President; oppose reconstruction; state power
5. Assimilation
Blending of culture
6. Black Codes
Southern laws; punish AA; reconstruction
7. Native American
Boarding /
Carlisle School
8. Chinese
Exclusion Act
Schools force assimilation of indigenous
9. Carpetbagger
10. Compromise of
1877
11. Reconstruction
Act of 1867
12. Sitting Bull
13. Dawes Act
14. Exodusters
15. Frederick
Douglass
16. Freedman’s
Bureau
17. Grandfather
Clause
18. Homestead Act
19. Jim Crow Laws
20. Ku Klux Klan
21. Literacy Tests
22. Poll Tax
23. Battle of Little
Big Horn
24. Plessy v.
Ferguson
25. Populism
26. Radical
Republican
27. Congressional
Reconstruction
Plan
28. Presidential
Reconstruction
Plan
29. Southern
Redeemer
30. Lost Cause
Movement
31. Scalawag
32. Reservation
System
33. Sharecropping
34. Tenure of Office
Act
35. Transcontinental
Railroad
36. Wounded Knee
Massacre
37. Sundown Town
38. Slaughter-House
Cases
39. US v.
Cruikshank