1. Unit 4 Lesson 3: Reconstruction

2.  Created to help freed slaves and poor whites after the Civil War  Morehouse College

3.  Sharecropping: Landowners allows farmers to use land and farming tools to produce crops in return for a share of the crops being produced.  Tenant Farming: Tenants used their own supplies to grow crops

4.  Lincoln Plan: Southerners would be pardoned if they took an oath of allegiance  Congressional Plan: The South would be treated like a conquered country  Andrew Johnson Plan: Approve the 13th Amendment and get rid of secession laws

5.  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.  Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

6.  All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

7.  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

8.  First black men to be elected in the Georgia General Assembly in1867  Were expelled (kicked out of office) in 1868 on the grounds that the constitution gave African Americans the right to vote but did not specifically give them the right to hold political office.

9.  Secret organization that tried to keep freedmen from exercising their new civil rights.  Terrorized African Americans to keep them from voting  Beatings, whippings, murders