It included the Fugitive Slave Act, California's entry to the Union as a free state, and territories opened up for popular sovereignty.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Southern states enacted these to limit the impact of the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments.
What were black codes?
They included things like the creation of 5 military districts, 10% of the voters swearing an oath of allegiance to the US, or having the South pay their war debts.
What were the three Reconstruction Plans?
This provided education for African Americans and poor whites so they could become economically self-sufficient and facilitated the establishment of schools in the South.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
The result of this was Georgia not being granted a legal return to the United States.
What was the removal of Black Legislators from the Georgia General Assembly?
Lincoln would abolish slavery, the North had a larger population that would keep the South from winning elections, and it was the only way to protect Southern political rights.
What are the reasons for secession?
This granted all male citizens the right to vote.
What was the 15th amendment?
This was enacted to help the South return to the Union as quickly as possible.
What was the purpose of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?
This group perpetrated violence and intimidation against African Americans in order to keep them from voting.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
Who put the Black legislators back in office?
Who was Congress?
This stated that slaves were property and not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories because it was a state's right.
What was the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision?
This overturned the Dred Scott decision.
What was the 14th amendment?
This was passed by Congress, and it separated the South into five military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment to reenter the United States. It was the most punitive plan.
What was the Congressional Plan?
What was the main cash crop in Georgia during the Reconstruction?
What is cotton?
The group that replaced the Black legislators who were removed.
Who were ex-Confederates?
This battle pushed the Union into Chatanooga and resulted in high casualties on both sides.
What was the Battle of Chickamauga?
List two types of loopholes or barriers the South created to hinder the Black vote.
What were poll taxes and Literacy Tests?
This plan included a pardon for Confederate soldiers, required ratification of the 13th amendment, and needed 10% of voters to swear allegiance to the Union. It was also lenient toward the South.
What was Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
This resulted in freedmen who had no resources finding themselves in a cycle of economic slavery.
What was sharecropping?
These included accusations that Blacks could not hold elected office because the 15th Amendment only allowed for voting.
What are the reasons Black Legislators were removed from the Georgia General Assembly?
The right for a state to disobey Federal law.
What is Nullification?
This granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What was the 13th amendment?
This plan was similar to Lincoln's plan but not as harsh as the Radical Republican's plan.
What is Johnson's Plan?
Farmers who owned their own equipment or had other resources but did not own their own land.
What were tenant farmers?
He was one of the Black Legislators removed from office in Georgia.
Who was Henry McNeal Turner?