5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 5, 6, 7

Reconstruction

Mrs. Thornburg’s version

Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 5, 6, and 7

13th Amendment Citizenship

14th Amendment Sharecropping

15th Amendment Segregation

Due process of law Reconstruction

Freedman’s Bureau Black Codes

Primary Source Jim Crow

Secondary Source Prejudice

Transcontinental Railroad Homestead

Exoduster Drought

Sodbuster

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 firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period?

Primary source

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 information from someone who did not witness an event?

Secondary source

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