Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This plan focused on quickly reuniting the nation with lenient requirements for Southern states.
What is Lincoln’s Plan?
One organization worked to provide education, food, and medical care to freed African Americans, while the other used violence and intimidation to resist Reconstruction and limit Black political power.
What were the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan?
This farming system required tenants to pay part of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
This legislative body in Georgia removed African American lawmakers.
What is the Georgia General Assembly?
This amendment granted citizenship to people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This group in Congress wanted stricter requirements for Southern states during Reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This secret group used violence to oppose Reconstruction.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
This system kept many freedmen and poor whites trapped in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes a colonist who remained loyal to the British king during the American Revolution.
What is a Loyalist (or Tory)?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
This plan placed Southern states under military rule.
What was the Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction Plan?
The primary goal of this organization was to help freed slaves and poor whites with resources.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This system helped keep the South dependent on agriculture rather than industry.
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
White legislators claimed African Americans were not citizens to justify this action. (Think about the Black Legislators)
What was removing African American legislators from office?
These three amendments were passed during Reconstruction to expand rights for African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Lincoln’s plan required only this percentage of voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is 10 percent?
This organization helped provide food, medical care, and job assistance during Reconstruction.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Cotton, tobacco, and this type of labor were common in Georgia during Reconstruction.
What is sharecropping labor?
This crop became “king” and increased reliance on enslaved labor in the South.
What is cotton?
What Is the acronym we use to remember the amendments?
What is Free Citizens Vote
Congress rejected Johnson’s and Lincoln’s plans because they believed these plans were too lenient toward the South.
Why did Congress create its own Reconstruction plan?
This secret organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from voting and to oppose Reconstruction laws in Georgia and across the South.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This economic system limited long-term economic growth in the South after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
This prehistoric group encountered the first Europeans in Georgia.
Who were the Mississippians?