| A | B |
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| Congress | They believed the southern states that seceded should be punished for the war and wanted harsher reconstruction laws. |
| Andrew Johnson | Became President when Lincoln was assassinated and had a reconstruction plan. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Had a reconstruction plan but was assassinated before implementing it. |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment gave all men the right to vote. |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment that gave citizenship to the freed slaves with equal protection under the law. |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that ended slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | government agency helping former slaves and poor whites |
| Black legislators | Group elected in 1868 to the General Assembly in Georgia but were later expelled |
| Henry McNeal Turner | Was a leader in the A.M.E. church and was elected as a legislator in 1868. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret organization founded to prevent freed slaves from their civil rights |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the South that restricted the rights of the freedmen. |
| Carpetbaggers | northerners who who moved south after the Civil War |
| Discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice |
| Georgia Act | a law that returned Georgia to military control for the third time |
| General Oliver Howard | He was placed in charge of the Freedman's Bureau |
| James Johnson | Georgia's first provisional governor following the conclusion of the Civil War |
| Marthasville | Was the previous name of Atlanta |
| Phoenix | ancient mythological bird who rose out of the ashes |
| General John Pope | He became the governor of the 3rd |
| Radical Republicans | were Republicans who wanted to punish the South severely for the Civil War |
| Scalawags | southerners who supported the Republicans |
| Sharecropper | a system where landowners provided land,house,farming tools,animals,seed and fertilizer to workers inexchange for a share of the harvest |
| Tenant Farmer | an agricultural system common after the Civil War where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed -upon share of the harvest; these farmers usually owned some agricultural equipment and animals. |
| Western and Atlantic | a railroad |
| Atlanta | became the capital of Georgia in 1868 |
| Savannah | the major Georgia seaport |
