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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | a time of major change in the state following the devastation of the Civil War; lasted from 1865-1872 |
| Freedman's Bureau | an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education |
| 13th Amendment | ended slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | gave African-Americans or Blacks United States citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | gave African-American or Black men the right to vote |
| Black Codes | laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen |
| Congressional Reconstruction | Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union |
| Ratify | to pass |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South. |
| Black Legislators | during the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876) sixty-nine African-Americans or Blacks served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or served as members of the state legislature. These legislators were removed from their seats after 1876. |
| Sharecropping | farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop. |
| Tenant farming | farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, tenant farmers usually owned their own farming equipment. |
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