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Set #9
Reconstruction in Georgia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment (1865) | Abolishes and prohibits slavery |
| 14th Amendment (1868) | Citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. |
| 15th Amendment (1870) | U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves |
| Sharecropping | system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops |
| tenant farmer | a person who farms rented land. |
| Freedman's Bureau | 1865 |
| congressional reconstruction | Divided the South into 5 military districts and stationed troops in each district |
| Military Reconstruction | Reconstruction period where the military took responsibly for bringing the South back into the Union |