5 th grade social studies ch. 6 and 7 reconstruction mrs. thornburg’s version
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5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 6 and 7
Reconstruction
Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 6 and 7: Reconstruction
13th Amendment Citizenship
14th Amendment Sharecropping
15th Amendment Segregation
Due process of law Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau Black Codes
Sodbuster Jim Crow
Drought Prejudice
Transcontinental Railroad Homestead
Exoduster
What do we call the period when the South rejoined the Union?
Reconstruction
Which amendment declared that slavery would not be allowed to exist in the United States?
13th Amendment
What do we call laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans?
Jim Crow laws
What do we call laws that limited the rights of former slaves to travel, vote, and work in certain
jobs?
Black Codes
What do we call the Amendment that gave all men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What is to become a citizen?
Citizenship
What do we call an organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to
poor blacks and whites?
Freedman’s Bureau
What do we call the right to a fair trial?
Due process of law
What do we call the amendment that declared that states could not limit the rights of citizens; this
amendment gave citizenship to African Americans?
14th Amendment
What do we call the forced separation of the African American and white race?
Segregation
What do we call a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in
return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop?
Sharecropping
What do we call the railroad that crossed the continent?
Transcontinental Railroad
What do we call a long period with little or no rain?
Drought
What do we call an African American settler who called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the
Bible?
Exodusters
What do we call a settler’s home and land?
Homestead
What do we call an unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment?
Prejudice
What was the name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick
soil, called sod, in order to farm?
Sodbusters