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Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Freedman's Bureau | Agency that helped freed slaves |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| Black Codes | laws limiting the rights of former slaves |
| carpetbagger | Nonsoutherner who took advantage of southerners |
| Radical Republicans | wanted to punish the South |
| intimidate | to frighten or threaten |
| Reconstruction | attempt of Federal Govt. to change South after war |
| 14th Amendment | citizen rights |
| 15th Amendment | voting rights for blacks |
| Presidential Reconstruction | Lincoln's plan to readmit southern states into the Union |
| Rufus Bullock | Georgia's first Republican governor |
| Henry McNeal Turner | expelled black legislator - AME Church |
| Alexander Stephens | VP of Confederacy/Congress |
| postbellum | period after the Civil War |
| Milledgeville | where secession convention was held |
| scalawag | southerners who worked with carpetbaggers |
| amnesty | grant forgiveness |
| Jefferson Long | Georgia's first black congressman |