NAME DATE Vocabulary Builder Activity
CLASS netw rks
The Reconstruction Era
A. Content Vocabulary
Directions Select a vocabulary term from the box that best
completes each blank below. Write the term in the blank. You
will not use all the terms.
Reconstruction
amnesty
black codes
impeach
override
scalawag
corruption
integrate
sharecropping
poll tax
literacy test
grandfather
clause
segregation
lynching
Not only did African Americans suffer politically, they suffered
economically. Having farming skills and little other
opportunities, many turned to 6.
. Most lived
in terrible poverty. Worse, still, was the threat and use of
violence against African Americans. Mobs killed African
Americans by 7.
. Members of the Ku Klux
Klan terrorized them. The decades after the Civil War were
indeed difficult and dangerous for African Americans. They
were free, but not yet equal.
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1.
was the period and a process that took
place after the Civil War. Despite their newfound freedom,
African Americans suffered politically, economically, and from
violence during this time. Southern states passed laws called
2.
to limit the freedom of the former slaves.
Southern states tried to stop African Americans from voting,
too. A 3.
made voting too expensive for
most. Even if they could afford to vote, African Americans
might not read well enough to pass a 4.
.
When some Southern states enacted a 5.
,
virtually no African American was eligible to vote.
NAME DATE Vocabulary Builder Cont.
CLASS netw rks
The Reconstruction Era
B. Academic Vocabulary
Directions Select an academic vocabulary term from the box
that best completes each sentence below. Write the term in the
blank. You many need to change the form of the word to fit the
sentence. You will not use all the terms.
radical
adjust
exclude
suspend
credit
academy
outcome
commission
1. President Lincoln wanted to treat the South mildly, but
others had
ideas.
2. The “freedom” many African Americans found was not
what they had hoped for, so they had to
their expectations.
3. White Southerners worked to
African
Americans from fully taking part in society and
government.
5. During Reconstruction, many former slaves received
training at
set up by Northern
missionaries.
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4. President Johnson set the stage for his impeachment when
he chose to
Edwin Stanton, his Secretary
of War.
NAME DATE CLASS Vocabulary Builder Cont.
netw rks
The Reconstruction Era
C. Combined Vocabulary Reinforcement
Directions Select the content or academic vocabulary term
from the box that is most similar to each word or phrase below.
Write the term in the blank. You will not use all the terms.
Reconstruction
amnesty
black codes
impeach
override
scalawag
corruption
integrate
sharecropping
poll tax
literacy test
grandfather clause
segregation
lynching
radical
adjust
exclude
suspend
credit
academy
outcome
commission
1. forgiveness
2. accuse
3. overrule
4. scoundrel
5. dishonesty
7. combine
8. separation
9. mob killing
10. extreme
11. alter
12. bar
13. school
14. group of officials
15. form of loan
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6. result