Antebellum
Name for the period before the Civil War?
What is Antebellum ?
Name for the period after the Civil War, and ended in 1877.
What is Reconstruction ?
This agency was set up to provide support for recently freed African Americans in addition to poor whites thru providing food, shelter, and especially EDUCATION.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This case decision state that all African Americans both slave and free were not citizens and did not have equal rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
Succeeded Abraham Lincoln after his assassination, and was the 17th president of the United States.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This greatly impacted the South's economy and was part of its identity.
What is cotton ?
This political rally/march began after the removal of black legislators in the General Assembly. It began in Albany and ended in disaster in another town in SW Georgia 25 miles away.
What is the Camilla Massacre?
Besides being accused of illiteracy and crimes, members of the Original 33 were removed from the General Assembly because this provision was not included in the new GA state constitution of 1868.
What is the right of African Americans to hold political office?
Confederate victory in the State of Georiga. It pushed the Union Army to Chattanooga which set up the Atlanta Campaign. 2nd the bloodiest battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
The Union General which led the March to the Sea.
Who was General William Tecumseh Sherman?
Black legislators elected in 1868 to the Georgia General Assembly were given this moniker
What is the "Original 33"?
Notorious Confederate prison in Georgia. Where thousands of Union soldiers perished due to unsanitary and cramped conditions.
What is Andersonville?
Many African Americans became embedded in this occupation after the war, which included renting plots of land to farm complete with tools, seeds and animals.1
The other one was where they rented land but did NOT rent tools, seeds, and animals.
What is a sharecropper?
What is tenant farmer?
This state was granted admtittance to the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850. The South was promised enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is California?
The three amendments from Civil and Reconstruction and what they accomplished.
What is the 13th - Freed slaves
14th- citizenship and equal rights
15th - right to vote?
Who are the Ex-Confederates/ Redeemer Democrats?
What is "scorched earth" or "Total War" policy?
Vice President of the Confederacy, and Congressman representing GA. Post Civil War, Republicans in Congress refused to allow him to take his seat.
What was Alexander Stephens?
Almost immediately after Lincoln was elected, SC seceded from the Union and the first shots of the war were fired here in Charleston harbor.
What is Fort Sumter?
The name of the group that was in control of Congress and implemented Congressional/ Military Reconstruction
What is the Radical Republicans?
Reasons given by newspapers as to why Black Legislators should be removed from the General Assembly. (3 reasons)
What are illiteracy, criminal history, and election from the wrong district from which they reside?
Lee surrendered to General Grant here on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This Confederate officer was put on trial and executed for war crimes due to his administration of an infamous prison in Georgia.
Who was Captain Henry Wirz?