The Constitution

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Reconstruction Vocabulary

We are in the home stretch for the eighth grade social studies curriculum.  The last historic era we will study is Reconstruction.  Today, students will study the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, take a pre-test (link to pre-test at the bottom of today's blog entry), and complete the list of vocabulary words and terms found below:


Jim Crow Laws
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
sharecropping
Civil Rights Act of 1866
literacy test
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
segregation
carpetbaggers
poll tax
grandfather clause
Andrew Johnson
Ten Percent Plan
Freedmen's Bureau
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes
Hiram Revels

Reconstruction Pre-Test 

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