Vocabulary words and concepts for the quiz on the Reconstruction
Be able to describe and state the importance of each of these terms.
Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction Acts
Tunis Campbell
Black Codes
Andrew Johnson
Plessy v Ferguson
Scalawags
Freedmen’s Bureau
Thaddeus Stevens
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
Impeach
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Segregation
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th
th
13 , 14 , and 15 Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Redeemers
Special Field Order 15
1866 Civil Rights Act
Poll tax
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sea Islands
Hiram Revels
Possible Questions:
 Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical Reconstruction.
 Who is a “hero” of the Reconstruction, what did this person do, and why are this
person’s actions heroic?
 What was the majority of white southerners’ attitude toward Reconstruction?
 Why do you think Reconstruction was abandoned?
 What do you think was a great success, and a great failure, of the Reconstruction?
Vocabulary words and concepts for the quiz on the Reconstruction
Be able to describe and state the importance of each of these terms.
Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction Acts
Tunis Campbell
Black Codes
Andrew Johnson
Plessy v Ferguson
Scalawags
Freedmen’s Bureau
Thaddeus Stevens
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
Impeach
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Segregation
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Redeemers
Special Field Order 15
1866 Civil Rights Act
Poll tax
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sea Islands
Hiram Revels
Possible Questions:
 Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical Reconstruction.
 Who is a “hero” of the Reconstruction, what did this person do, and why are this
person’s actions heroic?
 What was the majority of white southerners’ attitude toward Reconstruction?
 Why do you think Reconstruction was abandoned?
 What do you think was a great success, and a great failure, of the Reconstruction?