Reconstruction Vocabulary

Social Changes:  Vocab.   Complete frayer models for the following.

Freedmen, Feedman's bureau, disfranchised, Ku Klux Klan.

 

Political Changes:    Fill in the following as we go over it.

          After the Civil War, WV and VA had unfinished business to settle.  One was the amount of debt of VA's debt WV was required to pay.  In 1919, 56 years after the states creation, the US Supreme Court ruled that WV owed VA 14,562,867.  WV, the poor state that it was didn't have that kind of money, so they paid some in cash, then paid the rest in ___________ (notes that are proof of debt that are paid in payments with interest added).

Social Changes:

          After the 15^th Amendment gave freedmen all political rights, former confederate states created laws to limit the vote to certain groups.  _________________ was a tax that was required to vote.  This denied _________________ the vote.  Another way to deny the vote was the______________________.   A third way to deny voting was the _______________________ which required your grandfather to have been registered to vote.

 

Labor Unions:

          In order the fight unionization in WV, companies required workers hired to sign ________________________ (a condition of employment stating not to join a union or be evolved in union activity).  Workers at one company who were found to be involved in union activity would be placed on a ______________________ which was shared with other companies in the state.  Often companies would fight workers with the courts.  They would get a judge to issue an _____________________, then those not in compliance would be arrested.  Striking workers would often be replaced with ____________________ who were often immigrants.

bonds, poll tax, freedmen, literacy test, grandfather clause, yellow-dog contract, blacklist, injunction, scabs.