Worksheet # 76

literacy test       black codes      exodusters       segregation     redeemers
corruption         Blanche Bruce     sharecropper     Liberia     Juneteenth

1) A law that tried to prevent blacks from voting: ________.
2) Laws that limited what African-Americans could do and how they
        could act and work: _________.
3) Illegal practices by government or business, it became common in
         President Grant's office: _____________.
4) A country in Africa founded by and for former slaves: _________.
5) Nickname for the date when General Granger delivered the order that
         slaves were in fact free: ___________.
6) Nickname for former slaves who went west to start new lives:______.
7) One of the first African Americans elected to Congress: _______.
8) A name for the southerners who fought Reconstruction and tried
        to re-establish the old order: _________.
9) A person who farms land owns by another and pays by giving a
        piece of their crops: _________.
10) The division and separation of whites from blacks in schools,
          churches, stores and neighborhoods: __________.

Thought Question:  Why did many freedmen not feel much different
        than when they were slaves?













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