Reconstruction

Question 1

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Answer 1

Reconstruction Amendments - ended slavery, African Americans ARE citizens and gave black men the right to vote.

Question 2

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 2

A government agency that helped former slaves with food, jobs, and education after the Civil War.

Question 3

Sharecropping

Answer 3

A farming system where former slaves worked land for a share of the crop but often stayed in poverty.

Question 4

Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws

Answer 4

State laws that limited the rights of African Americans and enforced segregation in the South.

Question 5

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Answer 5

Supreme Court case that said segregation was okay if things were “separate but equal.”