Events Leading to the Civil War & GA's role in the Civil War
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 being removed from the Union for a second time.
What was the removal of Black Legislators from the Georgia General Assembly?
Fear that 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?
They were intimidated by violence, had votes destroyed or changed, and participated in political rallies.
Who were black Georgia voters during Reconstruction?
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 effectively overturned the Dred Scott decision which stated slaves were property.
What was the 14th amendment?
This was passed by Congress and separated the South into five military districts and required states to ratify the 14th amendment to reenter the United States.
What was the Congressional Plan?
This kept poor farmers in a cycle of debt they could not escape, requiring work for landowners year after year.
Why were sharecropping and tenant farming considered to be "new forms of slavery"?
This state was the only state to be readmitted to the Union twice.
What is Georgia?
This battle pushed the Union into Chatanooga and resulted in high casualties on both sides.
What was the Battle of Chickamauga?
These limited the freedoms for African Americans under the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. They later led to something known as Jim Crow laws.
What were Black Codes?
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 finding themselves in a cycle of economic slavery.
What was sharecropping?
These included accusations of being ineligible due to being accused of a crime, not being a resident of the county they were elected from, being able to vote but not hold public office, and being illiterate.
What are the reasons Black Legislators were removed from the Georgia General Assembly?
Union forces outnumbered Confederate troops, who were receiving supplies and equipment and were led by a fearsome leader who was willing to do what he had to do to win the war.
What were the advantages the North had in the Civil War?
This granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What was the 13th amendment?
These two plans both involved creating five military districts in the South and required the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments.
What were the Congressional Plan and the Military Plan?
Farmers who owned their own equipment but did not own their own land.
What were tenant farmers?
To remove ex-confederate representatives, reinstate colored legislators, and ratify the 15th amendment.
What did Georgia have to do to return to the Union a second time?