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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During Reconstruction, the military was in charge in the South. What is this called? | martial law |
| What African American founded Tuskegee Institute? | Booker T. Washington |
| For what did Patty Ruffner Jacobs fight? | women's suffrage |
| What is the right to vote called? | suffrage |
| How did women receive the right to vote? | The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed. |
| What are colleges such as Auburn University that received land granted by the federal government called? | land grant colleges |
| What are normal schools? | colleges that train teachers |
| Due to the destruction of the Civil War, what place often had blacks and whites meeting together? | churches |
| What word means to separate due to race, age, religion, etc. | segregation |
| What laws made it legal to separate whites and blacks in places such as schools? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Why was Birmingham nicknamed the Magic City? | It grew so fast due to the industries that were built there, especially the iron making industry. |
| What does reconstruction mean. | to build again |
| What right did the 14th Amendment to the Constitution give? | African American and other non-white groups were given citizenship |
| What is sharecropping? | when farmers use a farm owner's land to grow crops and pay him for use of the land |
| What laws limited the rights of African Americans in Alabama even after the Civil War? | Black Codes |
| What were Southerners who rooted for the North when the Civil War was over called? | scalawags |
| What were Northerners who went to the South to make money dishonestly after the Civil War called? | carpetbaggers |