Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan had a lenient approach aimed at quickly restoring the Southern states to the Union, requiring only 10% of voters to take an oath of allegiance.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
This federal agency was established in 1865 to aid freed slaves in the South during the Reconstruction era.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The southern states seceded from the Union after this event.
What is the Election of 1860?
This group used terror and violence to intimidate African Americans and their white allies during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and provided equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan was similar to Lincoln's but allowed Southern states to manage their own affairs, leading to the rise of Black Codes.
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
This group was established to resist Reconstruction efforts and maintain white supremacy through intimidation and violence.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Atlanta is found in this geographic region.
What is the Piedmont?
Name the three things that were prohibited at the beginning of colonial Georgia.
What are slavery, alcohol and land sales?
This amendment prohibited denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan imposed military rule on Southern states and required them to ratify the 14th Amendment before rejoining the Union.
What is the Congressional Reconstruction Plan?
In 1868, many of these individuals were expelled from the General Assembly in Georgia.
Who were black legislators?
Name the founder of Georgia and two key figures he interacted with
What are James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove?
Name the two periods of Georgia’s colonial history.
What are the Trustee Period and the Royal Colony?
This amendment was proposed in response to issues (i.e. black codes) faced by former slaves following the American Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan was established in hopes of enticing the South to surrender during the Civil War.
What is Lincoln's Plan?
This is a system where landowners allow tenants to use the land in exchange for a share of the crops produced.
What is sharecropping?
This is a system where farmers rent land to cultivate crops, often leading to cycles of debt and poverty. Farmers brought their own things with them.
What is tenant farming?
Name one of the four groups that settled in Georgia.
What are Jews, Salzburgers, Highland Scots, and Malcontents?
This is the most important contribution of black legislators during the Reconstruction.
What is the 1868 Constitution calling for free general public education in the State of Georgia?
Under this plan, states that had seceded were divided into 5 military districts to be governed by Union generals.
What is the Congressional Plan?
This event led to military rule returning to Georgia during Reconstruction.
What is Georgia removing black legislators from office and the Ku Klux Klan having impacted the state heavily?
Name the three reasons for the founding of the Georgia colony.
What are Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense?
This system of farming, common during Reconstruction, involved landowners allowing tenants to use land in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to exploitation. These farmers brought nothing but their labor.
What is sharecropping?