Events Leading to the Civil War & GA's role in the Civil War
Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstruction Plans
Sharecropping, Tenant Farming, the Freedmen's Bureau & the KKK
Reconstruction in Georgia
100

It included the Fugitive Slave Act, California's entry to the Union as a free state, and territories opened up for popular sovereignty.

What was the Compromise of 1850?

100

Southern states enacted these to limit the impact of the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments.

What were black codes?

100

They included things like the creation of 5 military districts, 10% of the voters swearing an oath of allegiance to the US, or having the South pay their war debts.

What were the three Reconstruction Plans?

100

This provided education for African Americans and poor whites so they could become economically self-sufficient and facilitated the establishment of schools in the South.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

100

The result of this was Georgia not being granted a legal return to the United States.

What was the removal of Black Legislators from the Georgia General Assembly?

200

Lincoln would abolish slavery, the North had a larger population that would keep the South from winning elections, and it was the only way to protect Southern political rights.

What are the reasons for secession?

200

This granted all male citizens the right to vote.

What was the 15th amendment?

200

This was enacted to help the South return to the Union as quickly as possible.

What was the purpose of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?

200

This group perpetrated violence and intimidation against African Americans in order to keep them from voting.

Who are the Ku Klux Klan?

200

Who put the Black legislators back in office?

Who was Congress?

300

This stated that slaves were property and not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories because it was a state's right.

What was the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision?

300

This overturned the Dred Scott decision.

What was the 14th amendment?

300

This was passed by Congress, and it separated the South into five military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment to reenter the United States. It was the most punitive plan. 

What was the Congressional Plan?

300

What was the main cash crop in Georgia during the Reconstruction?

What is cotton?

300

The group that replaced the Black legislators who were removed.

Who were ex-Confederates?

400

This battle pushed the Union into Chatanooga and resulted in high casualties on both sides.

What was the Battle of Chickamauga?

400

List two types of loopholes or barriers the South created to hinder the Black vote.

What were poll taxes and Literacy Tests?

400

This plan included a pardon for Confederate soldiers, required ratification of the 13th amendment, and needed 10% of voters to swear allegiance to the Union. It was also lenient toward the South.

What was Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

400

This resulted in freedmen who had no resources finding themselves in a cycle of economic slavery. 

What was sharecropping?

400

These included accusations that Blacks could not hold elected office because the 15th Amendment only allowed for voting.

What are the reasons Black Legislators were removed from the Georgia General Assembly?

500

The right for a state to disobey Federal law.

What is Nullification?

500

This granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.

What was the 13th amendment?

500

This plan was similar to Lincoln's plan but not as harsh as the Radical Republican's plan.

What is Johnson's Plan?

500

Farmers who owned their own equipment or had other resources but did not own their own land.

What were tenant farmers?

500

He was one of the Black Legislators removed from office in Georgia.

Who was Henry McNeal Turner?