He was assassinated at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
A terrorist organization that tried to frighten those it considered enemies- carpetbaggers, scalawags, and African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan(KKK)?
100
If tenants paid the landowner with a share of their crops instead of cash.
What is sharecropping?
100
A term used to describe newly freed slaves.
What is freedmen?
200
The minister at the African Methodist Episcopal Church that became one of the 1st African American men elected to the Georgia General Assembly.
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
200
Amendment that made anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. a citizen of the country with certain citizenship guarantees.
What is the 14th amendment?
200
A derogatory term used to describe northers who had come to the south.
What is the term carpetbagger?
200
System under which people rent land or living space from an owner.
What is tenant farming?
200
The greatest contribution of the freedmen's bureau, which had been legally denied to many before the Civil War.
What is education?
300
Became the new president, although he did not support rights for African-Americans like his predecessor.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
Laws that were passed by the Georgia Assembly that deny the freedmen the right to serve on juries, testify against whites, marry a white person, or vote.
What are the Black Codes?
300
An important federal agency that helped former slaves as they adjusted to their new lives and indigent whites as well.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
President Lincoln's reconstruction plan, which many northerners thought was too lenient.
What is the plan Ten Percent?
300
Became the first institutions to segregate.
What are churches?
400
Assassinated President Lincoln at the Ford Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
Amendment that guaranteed that no one could be denied the right to vote because of race or color.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
Conservative white southerners who believed they had "redeemed" or "saved" their states from the North's Reconstruction policies.
What is a redeemer?
400
A labor system that rented out prisoners to private companies, including railroads, who then provided for them, but often times exploited them for their work.
What is the Convict lease system?
400
The other two states in Georgia's district.
What is Florida and Alabama?
500
Came up with the idea "forty acres and a mule".
Who is General William T. Sherman?
500
A requirement that had to be paid in order for a citizen to vote and was a result of discrimination.
What is poll tax?
500
Term given to southern whites who became Republicans.
What is the term scalawags?
500
A plan where freed slaves could receive title to abandoned lands along the coast that was rejected.
What is the plan "forty acres and a mule"?
500
The five cities that served as Georgia's state capitals.
What is Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta?