5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 5, 6, 7
Reconstruction
Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Social Studies
Ch. 5, 6, and 7
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Due process of law
Freedman’s Bureau
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Transcontinental Railroad
Exoduster
Sodbuster
Citizenship
Sharecropping
Segregation
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Jim Crow
Prejudice
Homestead
Drought
What do we call the period when the South
rejoined the Union?
Reconstruction
Which amendment declared that slavery would not
be allowed to exist in the United States?
13th Amendment
What do we call laws that segregated African
Americans from other Americans?
Jim Crow laws
What do we call laws that limited the rights of
former slaves to travel, vote, and work in certain
jobs?
Black Codes
What do we call the Amendment that gave all men
the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What is to become a citizen?
Citizenship
What do we call an organization that provided
food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to
poor blacks and whites?
Freedman’s Bureau
What do we call firsthand information about an
event, a place, or a time period?
Primary source
What do we call the right to a fair trial?
Due process of law
What do we call the amendment that declared that
states could not limit the rights of citizens; this
amendment gave citizenship to African
Americans?
14th Amendment
What do we call the forced separation of the
African American and white race?
Segregation
What do we call a system in which landowners let
poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in
return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of
the crop?
Sharecropping
What do we call information from someone who
did not witness an event?
Secondary source
What do we call the railroad that crossed the
continent?
Transcontinental Railroad
What do we call a long period with little or no rain?
Drought
What do we call an African American settler who
called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the
Bible?
Exodusters
What do we call a settler’s home and land?
Homestead
What do we call an unfair, negative opinion that
can lead to unjust treatment?
Prejudice
What was the name given to Great Plains farmers
because they had to break through so much thick
soil, called sod, in order to farm?
Sodbusters