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H6- Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the 13th Amendment want to do? | Abolish (get rid of) slavery |
| What happened if Southern states passed this? | they could come back into the Union |
| What did the 14th Amendment do? | gave citizenship rights to freed slaves and gave equal protection to everyone |
| what Southern state was the only state to approve of this? | Tennessee |
| What did Congress say? | you must pass this in order to come back into the Union |
| What did the 15th Amendment do? | gave all US citizens the right to vote no matter their race or previous servitude |
| When did GA join back into the Union? | July 1870 |
| What did Abe Lincoln want? | to set up a new government and wanted the North and South to get back together |
| What did 1/10 of the people that voted in the 1860 election have to do? | take an oath to obey the constitution |
| What is the black code? | blacks were not allowed to vote, testify against whites in court and couldn’t serve as jurors |
| What did Johnson do after Lincoln's assassination? | he stayed committed to Lincoln's plan |
| What did the Radical Republicans favor? | harsher punishments |
| What did GA refuse and what happened? | GA refused to pass the 14th Amendment and was placed under the authority of Congress |
| What was tenant farming? | you owned things such as animals, equipment, and supplies. |
| How much of the harvest did tenant farmers recieve? | 3/4 |
| Did tenant farmers have a better chance at getting ahead? | yes |
| What is sharecropping? | you didn't own anything and had to borrow things. |
| What did sharecroppers contribute to? | labor |
| How much of the harvest did sharecroppers recieve? | half |
| Was sharecropping a legal form of slavery? | yes |
| Did they both work for landowners? | yes |
| What was deducted from crop allowance? | rent and money for supplies |
| What year was the Freedman's Bureau established and who established it? | US Gov't |
| What did they give to freed slaves? | food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies |
| Before the Civil War educating blacks was what? | forbidden |
| Freedman's Bureau built how many schools for blacks? | 4,000 |
| What year was the 1st black school opened and where? | 1865 and in the old slave mart in Savannah |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan? | a hate group determined to keep blacks from having the same rights as whites |
| What did they do? | spread terror throughout the South |
| They greatly influenced what because of scare tactics? | politics |
| Who was in charge of GA under military rule? | General John Pope |
| How many legislators were voted in? | 30 |
| Who was Henry McNeal Turner? | an educated minister, 1st black chaplain in the US Army, and he was elected to the House of Representatives |
| What happened to the black legislators? | faced daily harrasment and threats from white politicians and citizens. they were also threatened, beaten, or jailed. |
| What did the white politicans argue? | GA constitution denied blacks the right to hold office. 28 black legislators were expelled. |