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Civil War
vocabulary for Civil War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Freedmen’s Bureau | helped former black slaves, and poor whites in the South after the Civil War |
| Sharecropping | a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land |
| Reconstruction Plans | helped the south to become part of the union again |
| Tenant Farming | landowners contribute their land while tenant farmers contribute their labor |
| Henry McNeil Turner | was minister and politician pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War |
| Black Legislators | black men that participated in Georgia politics |
| Ku Klux Klan | formed during reconstruction to hurt blacks |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves |
| 15th Amendment | granted African American men the right to vote |