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Reconstruction period
Question | Answer |
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What did the 13th amendment do? | Abolished slavery |
14th amendment | Gave citizenship rights to freed slaves and they had were treated equally. TN was the only state that had to aprrove. |
15th amendment | U.S. citizens were aloud to vote no matter their race or if they used to be slaves. |
Who had the easiest reconstruction plan? | Abraham Lincoln |
Who agreed with Lincoln? | Johnson |
What did Lincoln want? | He wanted to set up a new government and get the south and north back together. |
What did Johnson want? | He wanted the same thing Lincoln wanted but he wanted to create a black code. |
What was the black code? | This was where blacks could not vote , testify against whites in court and couldn’t serve as jurors |
what was the Congress plan | They wanted a harsh punishment on the south. They passed the 14th amendment and GA refused and placed it under the authority of Congress |
What is a tenant farmer ? | They owned most of their equipment and animals. They retrieved 3/4 quarters of harvest. They had a better chance at getting ahead. |
What is a sharecropper? | They didn't own anything, they had to share everything. Only contributed to labor and legal form of slavery. They only received half of the harvest. |
What did the Freedman's Bureau do? | This gave freed slaved the necessities they needed (medicine, food, clothes, and etc.) |
Who established the Freedman's Bureau? | U.S. Constitution |
Before the Civil War what was educating blacks? | forbidden |
Who were the Ku Klux Klan? | A hate group who didn't want black to be treated the same as whites. The spread terror |
Who was in charge of military rule? | General John Pope |
How many black legislators were voted in? | 30 |
Who was Henry McNeal Turner ? | 1st black chaplain in the U.S. Army. Elected to the House of Representatives. Educated minister. |
What happened to the black legislatures? | They were harassed and threatened from white politicians and citizens. |
What did the white politicians argue? | GA constitution denied blacks the right to hold office. |
How many black legislators were there? | 28 |