1. How would you feel if your house got "ransacked"?
iRespond Question F
Multiple Response
A.) Sad
B.) Angry
C.) Depressed
D.) Unsure
E.)

2. What part of the house would you put back together first?
iRespond Question F
Multiple Response
A.) Kitchen
B.) Bedrooms
C.) Family Room
D.) Garage
E.)

3. Reconstruction
GA Studies

5. Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau: A government agency established in March 1865 to help both former slaves and poor whites cope with their everyday problems by providing food, clothing and other necessities

6. Reconstruction
Reconstruction: a plan to rebuild the South and restore southern states to the Union as quickly and easily as possible
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan:
All southerners were to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. (exclude high ranking military officials & Confederate government officials)
After 10% of the voters in a state took the oath, the state could form a government and ask to be readmitted to the Union

7. Reconstruction Disagreement with Lincoln’s plan:
Congress felt the southern states should be punished

8. Reconstruction Johnson’s original plan:
The same as Lincoln’s except he expanded the groups who were not granted a general pardon

9. Reconstruction Disenfranchised:
To take away the voting rights of others

10. Reconstruction Three Additions to Johnson’s Plan:
States had to approve (ratify) the 13th amendment
States had to nullify the articles of secession
States had to promise not to repay institutions and individuals who had funded the Confederacy

11. Reconstruction
Purpose of the 13th Amendment:
Abolish slavery

12. Reconstruction Black Codes:
Laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of freedmen
These laws often controlled the types of jobs freedmen could have, permitted whipping as a punishment, and established labor periods (sunrise to sunset)
These laws also permitted prison for jobless blacks so many worked for very low wages
Did not allow freed men to vote, serve on juries or testify against white men in court

13. Reconstruction Congress’ response to Black Codes:
They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Extended citizenship to African Americans
Gave federal government the right to intervene in issues of discrimination
14th amendment was also passed at this time

14. Reconstruction 14th Amendment: Gave citizenship to freedmen
Ensured equal protection under the law

15. Reconstruction Congressional Reconstruction:
Had to ratify 14th amendment
When southern states refused:
Congress invalidated the new governments
States were placed under military rule

16. Reconstruction Carpetbaggers: Scalawags:
Northerners who moved south after the war
Scalawags:
Southerners who supported the Republican reconstruction plan

17. Reconstruction
Three improvement made during the Constitutional Convention of 1867:
Civil rights for all GA citizens
Free public education for all children
Allowed married women to control their own property (1st state to do this)
New governor:
Rufus Bullock - Republican

18. Reconstruction Henry McNeal Turner:
One of 29 black legislators elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1868
What happened to the 32 African Americans elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1868?
They were expelled after it was determined they had been given the right to vote, but not to hold office

19. Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan:
A secret organization that tried to keep freedmen from exercising their new civil rights
Started in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865
Methods of Terrorism used:
Intimidation included beatings, whippings, murder

20. Reconstruction 15th amendment:
Gave all male citizens the right to vote

21. Reconstruction Georgia’s readmission was completed after they:
Ruled that blacks were eligible to hold office
Reseated the expelled African American representatives
Approved 14th amendment
Ratified 15th amendment
Democrats regained control of both houses of the Georgia General Assembly

22. Reconstruction Sharecropping:
Landowners provided land, a house, farming tools and animals, seed, and fertilizer. Workers agreed to give the owner a share of the harvest.
Tenant Farming:
Similar to sharecropping. Main difference was tenants usually owned some equipment and farm animals. They also bought their own seed & fertilizer. At end of year they paid landowner a set amount of cash or share of crop

23. Reconstruction Demand on soil:
Because the bankers put such high expectations on farmers (expected them to grow cotton & tobacco crops year after year) the soil was ruined
Farmers became poorer and poorer
Cotton was still the most important crop in Georgia

24. Reconstruction Other businesses expanded during Reconstruction:
Industry increased because of increased cotton demand (textile mills increased)
Banks began to reopen due to increased demand
Dry goods stores, shops, and hotels reopened
Railroad traffic & shipping increased as shipping demands grew

25. As a southern state, what would you rebuild first after the Civil War?
Multiple Response
iRespond Question
As a southern state, what would you rebuild first after the Civil War?
A.) Railroad system
B.) Farming operations
C.) Banking system
D.) Buildings and infrastructure
E.)