RECONSTRUCTION TERMS

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

To rebuild the south after the civil war

Question 2

Black codes

Answer 2

Laws that restricted freedmen’s rights

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

Voting rights to all male African americans

Question 4

Civil right

Answer 4

Citizens personal liberties guaranteed by law

Question 5

14th amendment

Answer 5

Guaranteed citizenship to African Americans

Question 6

Carpet bagger

Answer 6

Insulting nickname given to northerners who came to the south to take advantage

Question 7

Share cropper

Answer 7

System of farming in which the harvest is shared

Question 8

Tenant farming

Answer 8

System of farming in which the farmer rents land from the land owner

Question 9

Infrastructure

Answer 9

Public property and services society used

Question 10

Compromise of 1877

Answer 10

Agreement to allow Hayes to be president. Ended reconstruction. North left the sourh