Reconstruction Trivia

1. Reconstruction Trivia Vocabulary, Key Events, and Important People Review

2. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Forgiveness granted by the government to a group of people • Amnesty

3. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Man who becomes President after the assassination of Lincoln • Andrew Johnson

4. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War • Black Codes

5. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Former slave who became a Senator after the Civil War • Blanche Bruce

6. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • A negative nickname for a northern white who went to the South after the Civil War to start a business or pursue a political career • Carpetbagger

7. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Former minister who became the 1st African American Senator • Hiram Revels

8. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Men and women who were legally freed from slavery after the Civil War • Freedmen

9. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Black man arrested for sitting in a white coach • Homer Plessy

10. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 • Grandfather Clause

11. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Famous actor who assassinated President Lincoln • John Wilkes Booth

12. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Process of bringing formal charges against a government official • Impeachment

13. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Plan saying that as soon as 10% of the voters swear an oath to loyalty a state may be readmitted to the Union • Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

14. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Exam to see if a person can read and write; used in the South to restrict voting rights • Literacy Test

15. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Organization created to provide emergency relief to those displaced by the war • Freedmen’s Bureau

16. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Personal tax to be paid before voting • Poll Tax

17. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Amendment stating that there will no longer be slavery in the United States • 13th Amendment

18. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Southern white who opposed secession • Scalawag

19. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Amendment stating that all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens • 14th Amendment

20. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Enforced separation of the races • Segregation

21. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Amendment stating that no state can stop someone from voting based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude • 15th Amendment

22. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Person who rents a plot of land and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop • Sharecropper