vocabulary strategies game

Construct Some Meaning With Vocabulary!

Ms. WillisTo construction site

We need your help!

• The Reconstruction Era has been put on pause. No one seems to know what the terms are to talk about it, so they can’t move forward. Help us by choosing the correct answers.

Move Forward!

• Complete this sentence:A(n) ______________ is a person that does business or acts in the place of another person or business.

representative advisor

lawyer

• The Black Codes were:

Laws passed to limit freed African Americans

Instruction codeswritten in black

A set of codes usedto translate messages

• Complete the sentence.Only 2 presidents have ever been ________: Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson.

impeached

fraud

charged

Lincoln was _____________ before he could continue with his plans for reuniting the north and south. This means that he was murdered by surprise.

assassinated

healed

attacked

What was the name of the agency that helped newly freed African Americans by providing them with food, shelter, and education?

Freemen’s Agency

Helper’s Union

Freedmen’s Bureau

• Another word for ratify is:

approve write

enjoy

This word means to do away with completely or put an end to.

reconstruction elaborate

abolish

The Reconstruction Era is called that because:

The nation neededto be rebuilt

America needed more buildings

Legos® were invented

It’s probably close to the right answer; you’re on the

right track. Keep at it.

Sorry, not the right answer!

One more time..

Take another look!

Incorr

ect!

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Nope, that’s not it.

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You did it! Thanks to you, America can continue to rebuild in peace.