Reconstruction Amendments
Freedmen's Bureau
Georgia didn't want to change
Is this farming or slavery?
I have a plan....maybe not
100

This amendment abolished slavery.

13th Amendment

100

This federal agency helped formerly enslaved people adjust during Reconstruction.

Freedmen's Bureau

100

After the Civil War, this period was meant to rebuild the South politically, socially, and economically.

Reconstruction

100

 In this farming system, workers farm the land and pay the owner with a portion of their crops and it replaced slavery as the main labor system on Georgia farms

Share Cropping

100

Under Lincoln’s plan, this percentage of voters had to swear loyalty to the Union before a state could rejoin.

10% of voters

200

This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

14th Amendment

200

The Freedmen’s Bureau provided these two major services.

education and legal/food/medical assistance

200

 These elected officials were expelled from the Georgia General Assembly in 1868.

African American legislators

200

Plantation owners turned to these groups as laborers after the Civil War.

poor whites and freedmen

200

Lincoln’s plan required states to abolish this institution.

slavery

300

This amendment granted voting rights to African American men.

15th Amendment

300

The terrorist/political group aimed at intimidating freedmen and Northerners.

The Klu Klux Klan

300

Georgia was finally readmitted to the Union in this year.

1870

300

This Georgia industry expanded because it needed labor, including former enslaved people.

The textile/cotton mill industry

300

This group was angry that Johnson allowed former Confederates back into government.

Radical Republicans

400

 Georgia had to ratify which two amendments in order to be readmitted to the Union during Congressional (Military Reconstruction)?

14th and 15th amendments

400
The weaknesses of the Freedmen's Bureau.

Under-staffed and under-resourced

400

The federal government returned military control to Georgia after the expulsions, calling for this.

 The re-establishment of military Reconstruction

400

These farmers rented land and usually owned some of their own tools or animals.

Tenant Farmers

400

Radical Republicans believed Reconstruction should protect this group’s rights.

 freedmen / African Americans

500

This political group in Georgia resisted the Reconstruction Amendments and pushed back voting rights.

Southern Democrats

500

The Freedmen’s Bureau helped establish this famous HBCU in Georgia.

Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University)

500

These reconstruction plans were the strictest and which was the most lenient.

Congressional Reconstruction and the Johnson Plan

500

Which group had more independence: sharecroppers or tenant farmers?

Tenant Farmers

500

Congress divided the South into these.

military districts