What Does This Mean?

Question 0

LYNCHING

                  What does it mean?

Answer 0

-hanging by an angry mob because you are a suspect of crimes.

Question 1

Grandfather Clause

                      What was it?

Answer 1

-If your father or grandfather voted before 1867 then you can vote. All blacks did not vote until 1867 they could not vote

Question 2

Segregation

                    What was it?

Answer 2

Separation between the Blacks and the whites.

Question 3

AMNESTY

               What does it mean?

Answer 3

-a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders, who were willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the union

Question 4

Sharecropping

Answer 4

A person who gives a share of his crops to the landlord as rent.

Question 5

Poll Tax

                       What was it?

Answer 5

-a certain amount of money a person had to pay in order to vote, this prevented most blacks but also, some whites from voting.

Question 6

Carpetbaggers

                              Who were they?

Answer 6

-Republicans who came to the south to take advantage of the situation. Called carpetbaggers because their bags were made out of carpet materials.

Question 7

Scalawags

                                   Who were they?

Answer 7

A white southerner working or supporting the federal government during reconstruction. Means a worthless rascal.

Question 8

Impeach

                    What does it mean?

Answer 8

To bring charges against a public office for wrongdoing in office.

Question 9

Literacy Tests

                      What were they?

Answer 9

-a person had to read a difficult part from the constitution, this prevented most blacks, and some whites from voting because they were not educated as well as other people