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Reconstruction era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| freedmen | men and women who had been slaves |
| Reconstruction | 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 |
| black codes | Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War |
| 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. |
| Lincoln's assassination | The North should be supportive of laws/policies that help people in the South recover faster |
| Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | The North should be supportive of laws/policies that help people in the South recover faster |
| 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments | granted civil rights to African Americans |
| What battle was an important Union battle in the South, and where Confederates lost control of the Mississippi River? | Siege of Vicksburg |
| What was the process of re-admitting Southern States into the Union? | Reconstruction |
| What amendment freed slaves in all states? | 13th Amendment |
| What amendment made all former slaves American Citizens? | 14th Amendment |
| What amendment allowed all former slaves the right to vote? | 15th Amendment |
| What was the North's strategy to defeat the South? | the Anaconda Plan- use a naval blockade to prevent the south's imports and exports |
| What river did Lincoln hope to gain control of, to split the Confederacy? | Mississippi |
| Who argued the South's secession was constitutional because it was a right established by the Declaration of Independence? | Jefferson Davis |
| What disrupted the South's agricultural economy and ensured the British and French did not support the South? | Emancipation |
| Who assassinated Lincoln on April 15, 1865 in Washington DC to avenge the South's defeat in the war? | John Wilkes Booth |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Reason that African American legislators were kicked out of office. | GA said that the state constitution did not allow African Americans to hold office |
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