Vocabulary
When it came to Reconstruction, this group was more of the "slugging" type.
Who were the Redeemers?
This group made it very difficult on the South during Reconstruction.
What are the Radical Republicans?
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
This industry in Augusta went out of business after the Civil War. The building is no longer there, but the chimney remains to this day.
What is the Powder Works?
Founder of the Methodist Denomination.
Who is John Wesley?
the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
This man became president after Abraham Lincoln was shot.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
to separate by race
What is segregate?
System of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter.
What is tenant farming?
He was president during the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Individuals who moved to the South from the North to run Southern governments
What are carpetbaggers?
This amendment gave all males born in the United States the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This man began the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.
Who Is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
A system in Georgia after the Civil War in which prisoners were leased to companies for their labor; companies were supposed to provide housing and food.
What is the convict lease system?
The even that led to the Chatahoochee River becoming Georgia's western border.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
the belief that whites are biologically different and superior to people of other races
What is white supremacy?
This man won the 1877 election.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This group's purpose was to terrorize African Americans and intimidate them into subordination.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This city became the capital of Georgia with the signing of the new Georgia Constitution in 1868.
What is Atlanta?
The two hemispheres that Georgia is located in.
What is Northwest?
Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This man was put in charge of the Freedman's Bureau in 1865
Who is Oliver Howard?
A negative nickname given to Southerners who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
A form of credit repaid in crops rather than money.
What is a crop lien?
The ocean that is north of Asia.
What is the Arctic Ocean?