Vocabulary Builder Activity netw rks
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DATE
Vocabulary Builder Activity
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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.
Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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
Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies.
6. result
