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A NEW SOUTH--or is it?

Games to test your knowledge on the Reconstruction era.

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freedmenformer slaves
Ten Percent PlanLincoln's Reconstruction ideas
Freedmen's Bureauorganization designed to help the newly free slaves get a new start
literacy testrequired voters to prove they could read before they could vote
Wade-Davis billproposed that 50% of former confederates had to pledge an oath of loyalty before being readmitted to the Union
Reconstructionperiod of rebuilding the nation following the Civil War
carpetbaggerNortherner who went to the South after the war seeking profit
Plessy v. Fergusonsaid segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal
poll taxresulted in people having to pay a fee to vote
Jim Crow Lawslaws that enforced segregation
scalawagSoutherner who supported Reconstruction governments
15th amendmentgave all males, including black, the right to vote
black codessouthern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks
Johnson's Reconstruction ideasrequired southern states to denounce secession, pay debts, and ratify the 13th amendment
sharecropperfarmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner part of the harvest
grandfather clauseallows whites to vote who could not pass a literacy test or pay a poll tax
Radical Republican Reconstruction ideasdivided states into districts, and required them to ratify 14th and 15th amendments
14th amendmentsaid that any person who was born in the U.S. was a U.S. citizen


Social Studies
Hillcrest Middle School

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