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| Which statement best describes the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction? | To provide education, training, and social services for newly freed slaves |
| Black Codes of Reconstruction | involved laws limiting the types of jobs that newly freed slaves could have. |
| Black Codes of Reconstruction | permitted African Americans to be put in prison if they did not have jobs. |
| Black Codes of Reconstruction | restricted the freedmen’s right to vote, serve on juries, and testify against whites in court. |
| Which statement best describes the most important difference between the Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln and the radical Congress? | The Congressional plan treated the southern states like conquered provinces requiring Congress to monitor their treatment of freedmen. |
| difference between sharecropping and tenant farming? | Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment to use in working other people’s lands. |
| the contributions of the Freedmen’s Bureau in education | The Bureau set up thousands of primary schools, industrial or vocational schools, and teacher training centers for African Americans in the South. |
| Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in response to | the practice of adopting laws known as Black Codes, which restricted the rights of freedmen. |
| the reason behind the move of Georgia’s capital to Atlanta from Milledgeville? | Many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1867 were blacks who were denied lodging in Milledgeville hotels. |
| why northern businessmen invested money to build Georgia’s textile industry after the Civil War? | Georgia had plenty of cotton, abundant land and water, and inexpensive labor to supply and operate textile mills. |
| example of Georgia’s Black Codes | Freedmen without jobs could be imprisoned. |
| example of Georgia’s Black Codes | Freedmen could work excessive hours, from sunrise to sunset, six days per week. |
| example of Georgia’s Black Codes | Freedmen could not testify in court against a white person. |
| action led the U.S. Congress to argue that Georgia was not “adequately reconstructed” in 1866 | The activities of the Ku Klux Klan |
| By granting citizenship to freedmen and extending to them the equal protection of the law that all other citizens enjoyed | How could Congress make Georgia stop passing laws to enforce restrictions on the civil rights of freedmen without infringing on Georgia’s own state’s rights? |
| A scalawag | scoundrel or worthless rascal. |
| What was the Georgia Act of 1869? | Federal legislation returning Georgia to military control because of KKK terrorism against freedmen |
| Which political party of the 1860s was associated with the political and military Reconstruction phases of Georgia’s readmission to the Union? | Republican |
| aided in Georgia’s economic Reconstruction | The construction of new railroad lines |
| aided in Georgia’s economic Reconstruction | b. The opening of coastal seaports to handle import and export needs |
| aided in Georgia’s economic Reconstruction | The re-opening of banks capable of loaning money to farmers, businesses, and merchants |
| stages of Reconstruction in the South following the Civil War were | presidential, Congressional, and military stages. |
| Tunis G. Campbell, Jr., Henry McNeal Turner, and Aaron A. Bradley were expelled from the Georgia house and senate after their elections in 1868 because they | had the right to vote but not the right to hold office. |
| secret white supremacy organization that became a force in Georgia during Reconstruction and tried to prevent freedmen from exercising their civil rights | The Ku Klux Klan |
| the major agricultural crop produced in Georgia was | Cotton |
| The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as | Reconstruction |
| African-Americans in Georgia after the Civil War | Some won election to political office. |
| Radical Republicans believe in | more freedom for African-Americans |
| How were landowners compensated by sharecroppers | harecroppers paid a portion of their crop to landowners, |
| the first African Americans elected to the U.S. Senate | Tunis Campbell |
| Supreme Court allow Southern states to practice segregation | They allowed it if accommodations were “separate but equal.” |
| practice of providing “separate but equal” public accommodations for races | segregation |
| The original purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to help | former slaves and poor whites. |
| The BEST description of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction was that it | provide training, education, and social services for the newly freed slaves. |
| system was developed to provide labor to work the former plantations | Sharecropping & Tenant Farming |
| Sharecroppers paid their landowners by | providing labor and a large percentage of their crops. |
| Tenant Farming | They owned some of their own equipment |
| Tenant Farming | They made a profit. |
| Tenant Farming | They owned their own land. |
| Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called | 10 Percent Plan |
| To whom did President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan deny a general pardon? | Southerners who owned more than $20,000 worth of land. |
| Why was President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan NOT enacted? | The plan did not become effective before Lincoln was assassinated. |
| What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do that brought about many changes in Georgia’s society and economic structure after the Civil War? | It abolished slavery. |
| Under the terms of the radical Congressional plan of Reconstruction, what amendment did a southern state have to ratify before it could rejoin the Union? | 14th & 15th |
| Fourteenth Amendmen | It gave African-American’s citizenship. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | It gave African-Americans the right to vote. |
| The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in response to the | adoption of laws known as Black Codes by the Southern States. |
| Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature on the grounds that he did not | have the right to hold public office |
| what secret organization used force and violence to influence Georgia’s society? | KKK |
| Atlanta was once called Marthasville because | it was named after Governor Lumpkin’s daughter Martha |
