History vocabulary quiz

_________________ were laws that targeted African Americans and other marginalized groups, making it illegal to be unemployed or homeless.

Vagrancy Laws

The __________________ were a faction of the Democratic Party that sought to move away from Reconstruction policies and focus on economic issues.

New Departure Democrats

The __________________ was the first federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens were equally protected by the law.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

The ________________ was a white supremacist terrorist organization that used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights, including the right to vote.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

The ______________________ was a series of state constitutional amendments and laws enacted in Mississippi in 1890 to disenfranchise African Americans and poor whites through literacy tests, poll taxes, and other means.

Mississippi Plan

_____________________were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction, often for personal or political gain.

Scalawags

__________________ were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often to seek economic opportunities or to support Republican policies.

Carpetbaggers

The ____________________ Amendment to the United States Constitution granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed them equal protection under the law.

14th

The "_________________" referred to the state governments established in the Southern states during early Reconstruction, often led by Republicans sympathetic to Lincoln's policies.

Lincoln Governments

__________________ was a system of agriculture in which landless farmers (often former slaves) rented land from landowners and paid rent with a portion of the crops they grew.

Sharecropping

The ________________ was a federal agency established to provide assistance to newly emancipated African Americans and to help them transition to freedom.

Freedmen’s Bureau

The ______________ system was a system of penal labor in the Southern United States, where prisoners were leased to private companies for economic gain, often leading to abuses and harsh conditions.

Convict-lease

The ____________________ encouraged Western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small fee and a commitment to live on and cultivate the land.

Homestead Act of 1862

The _____________ Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

13th

The ________________ provided grants of land to states to establish colleges that focused on agricultural and mechanical arts, leading to the creation of many land-grant universities.

Morill Act of 1862

The ______________ were laws enacted by Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the freedom and rights of African Americans.

Black codes

________________ after the Civil War aimed to rebuild the Southern states and integrate them back into the Union.

Reconstruction

The ___________________ lasted until 1879, leading to widespread unemployment and economic hardship in the United States.

Depression of 1873

The __________________ Amendment to the United States Constitution granted African American men the right to vote, stating that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

15th

The ___________________ laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union and required them to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

Reconstruction Act of 1867