laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
What were the black codes?
Number of days after the Civil War ended when President Lincoln was assassinated
What is 5?
state from which Andrew Johnson lived
What is Tennessee?
The KKK Consisted mostly of
Confederate Veterans
Lincoln was shot on ? ( Month, Date, Year)
April 14, 1865
Southern Democrats called __________ voted back into office
Redeemers
the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law
What are civil rights?
Name of Lincoln's vice president who became president after the assassination
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Amendment that both Johnson and Congress supported
What is the 13th?
members of Congress who opposed Pres. Johnson's ideas
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Atlanta chose how many African American Delegates
37
Group that was formed to restore power to white Democrats in the south
What was the KKK?
the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
What was Reconstruction?
Percent of people needed in a southern state to reenter the union according to Lincoln's plan
What is 10%?
What year was Presidential Reconstruction?
1865-1866
Created the first public school program for either blacks or whites
Freedmans Bureau
What were the 2 conditions for a state to be readmitted to the union?
10% plan and 13th Amendment
The process of rebuilding the south after the civil war was known as
Reconstruction
an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Who was Georgia's 1st military Governor after the Civil War?
John Pope
Most lasting benefit of the Freedmen's Bureau
What was education?
He was elected to the House of Representatives but was expelled because he was black?
Henry Mcneal Turner
was elected in 1868 with the help of half a million black votes
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
During Reconstruction, Georgia held another constitutional convention in what city
Atlanta
a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
What is the 14th amendment?
Georgia was Readmitted into the union in? ( MONTH AND YEAR)
December 1865
Who pushed the passage of the 13th Amendment to Abolish Slavery?
Thaddeus Stephens
farmers who paid rent for the land they worked
Who were sharecroppers?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) began in Tennessee
1867
Democrats gained control of Georgia politics in
1871