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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| freedmen | men and women who had been slaves |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| Lincoln's plan | Pardon those who took an oath of allegiance to the United States, 10% of white voters took the oath of allegiance, state agreed to ratify 13th Amendment |
| Freedmen's Bureau | government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves by providing food, housing and education |
| Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery |
| black codes | Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War |
| Fourteenth Amendment | gave citizenship to freed slaves |
| 15th Amendment | amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny citizens the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret society organized after the Civil War that was violent and intimidated blacks from voting and using their new rights. |
| Henry McNeal Turner | African American Legislator that served in the Georgia General Assembly that was forced out; felt that Blacks should leave and go to Africa b/c they being treated poorly here in the South |
| sharecropper | Lived on and worked the land in exchange for part of the crop.Had no animals, seeds, fertilizer or tools |
| Tenant farmer | Lived on someone else's land, provided labor in exchange for using the land, often provided their own animals, equipment, and supplies. |
| Reason that African American legislators were kicked out of office. | GA said that the state constitution did not allow African Americans to hold office |
| Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | The North should be supportive of laws/policies that help people in the South recover faster |
| Sharecroppers | had to pay a portion of their profits to landowners from their own share of the crop. Landowners also received the largest part of the crop and benefited from sharecroppers' labor. |
| Differences in Lincoln's Plan and the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction | Congressional plan was harsher and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War |
| Lincoln's assassination | Reason that Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan did not happen |
| Differences between Sharecroppers and tenant farmers. | Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment to use in working other people's lands. |
| 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments | granted civil rights to African Americans |
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