RECONSTRUCTION BASICS
This period (1867–1877) was when the South rebuilt after the Civil War.
👉 What is Reconstruction?
Lincoln’s plan required only this percent of voters to swear loyalty.
👉 What is 10%?
This amendment banned slavery.
👉 What is the 13th Amendment?
This farming system required workers to give a share of their crop to the landowner.
👉 What is sharecropping?
This hate group used violence to intimidate Black voters.
👉 What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Georgia’s government had this after the Civil War.
👉 What is collapsed?
This president carried out Reconstruction after Lincoln was assassinated.
👉 Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
👉 What is the 14th Amendment?
This farming system allowed farmers to rent land and often own tools.
👉 What is tenant farming?
This Black minister was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.
👉 Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
Georgia struggled to rebuild because farms, railroads, and this were destroyed.
👉 What is infrastructure?
This Reconstruction plan divided the South into military districts.
👉 What is Congressional Reconstruction?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
👉 What is the 15th Amendment?
A major problem with sharecropping was this.
👉 What is debt / poverty / being trapped financially?
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this.
👉 What are scalawags?
Many Confederate soldiers returned home to find farms and plantations in this condition.
👉 What is destroyed or barren?
Johnson’s plan required states to ratify this amendment.
👉 What is the 13th Amendment?
These three amendments are often called this.
👉 What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This group was helped by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
👉 Who are freedmen (and poor whites)?
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called this.
👉 What are carpetbaggers?
Reconstruction required Southern states to do this in order to rejoin the Union.
👉 What is ratify amendments / rewrite their constitution / swear loyalty to the U.S.?
This plan was considered the strictest of the three.
👉 What is Congressional Reconstruction?
The main purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments was to protect the rights of these people.
👉 Who are formerly enslaved people / African Americans?
The first school for Black students in Georgia was located in this city.
👉 What is Atlanta?
By 1867, about this percent of eligible Black men in Georgia registered to vote.
👉 What is 80%?