Reconstruction Vocabulary

1. It was wrong for white Americans to _________ against black Americans.
5. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments gave more _________ and freedoms to black Americans.
7. Many freed slaves became ________, farmers who had to borrow land, tools, and seeds from white landowners.
10. The 13, 14, and 15th __________s gave black Americans more rights.
11. The 13th Amendment had a positive _______ on the lives of black Americans.
14. The time of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called __________.
15. The ________ government wrote the Reconstruction amendments to protect black rights and freedoms.
16. __________ is when someone thinks they are better because of their race.

2. __________ laws kept black and white people away from each other.
3. The 14th Amendment gave ________ to newly freed African Americans.
4. Southern whites unfairly believed in white ________, meaning they believed they were superior to African Americans.
6. One _________ source you could use to learn about Reconstruction is a letter from a sharecropper.
8. Black americans experienced _________ after the 13th Amendment.
9. A _________ source I could use to learn about Reconstruction is my textbook.
12. Many southern states passed harmful ________ or rules for black people.
13. Northerners and Southerners had different ________ on how to rebuild the South after the Civil War.