What is the term for the Northern Republicans who came to the South to live. They were not popular!!!
Carpetbaggers
100
Which amendment gave former slaves equality under the law?
The 14th Amendment
100
Who's plan for Reconstruction included:
- All southerners, except for high ranking Confederate military leaders would be pardoned after taking the Oath of Allegiance.
-When 10% of a state took the Oath of Allegiance, they would get their government back and be able to rejoin the Union
Abraham Lincoln
100
What was designed to restrict the rights of Freedmen in terms of their jobs, labor periods, and personal freedoms?
The Black Codes
200
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
200
What act returned Georgia to military control because they didn't ratify the 15th Amendment?
Georgia Act
200
This Amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote.
The 15th Amendment
200
Southerners had to approve the 13th Amendment, nullify their ordinances of secession, and not repay the people who helped pay for the Confederacy. Who did this?
President Johnson
200
What group of haters was formed to terrorize freedmen and keep them from their civil rights?
The Ku Klux Klan
300
Who became President after Lincoln's death?
Andrew Johnson
300
What is the name for the group of Southerners who were Republicans and hung out with the carpetbaggers?
Scalawags
300
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment made slavery illegal.
300
What was Congress' plan for Reconstruction?
The South should be punished and protect the rights of freedmen!
300
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
One of the first African Americans to be elected to the Georgia General Assembly (the legislative branch)
400
Who was the group that made up most of Congress and believed the Southerners should be punished before being able to re-enter the Union?
Radical Republicans
400
Who made up the largest group of Southern Republicans who kept the Republicans in power?
African Americans (woo hoo!!!)
400
Which Amendment led to the South creating the Black Codes?
The 13th Amendment
400
Why did Congress not trust President Johnson?
He was a Southerner!!!
400
What is suffrage?
The right to vote
500
What is the federal agency that was created to educate and take care of freed slaves and poor whites?
The Freedmens Bureau
500
What is the difference between a sharecropper and a tenant farmer?
Sharecroppers worked for food, clothing, and shelter with little to no profit. Tenant farmers owned their own farming equipment and animals and made more of a profit.
500
To get out from under military control, Georgia had to promise to ratify this Amendment.
The 15th Amendment
500
How did Lincoln feel about Reconstruction (in terms of letting the Southerners back in the Union)?
He wanted to return the Southern states back to the Union as quickly as possible!
500
Which Southern state was the ONLY state to ratify the 14th Amendment (while the others fell under military control)?