Reconstruction

Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 26th

Constitutional Amendment that granted citizenship to freedmen; required freedmen to be given "equal protection under the law"

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 24th

Period of time, after the Civil War, when the South was required to undergo political, social, economic change in order to reenter the United States.

• Antebellum

• Renissance

• New South

• Reconstruction

Colleges, such as Morehouse College, began through the work of this organization which was created to help freed slaves after the Civil War.

• Free Soliers

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Department of Education

• Abolitionist

Secret Organization established to terrorize and make it difficult for ex-slaves to exercise their rights.

• Black Panthers

• National Rifleman's Association

• Sons of the Confederate Soldiers

• Ku Klux Klan

Many of these were removed from Georgia's General Assembly for a variety of reasons, such as being accused of being a non-resident of the county for which he was elected and for being illiterate...

• Ex-Civil War Soldiers

• Members of the White Caucus

• Black Legislators

• Democrats

This was a job many ex-slaves turned to after slavery because they had nothing but the clothes on their back...

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Butler

• Blacksmith

According to the Georgia Constitution, Southern Democrats expelled Blacks from the Georgia legislature because:

• They did not have the right to hold office.

• They did not have the right to vote.

• They sided with the Southern Democrats

• They owned too much land.

Which statement describes the attitude of the Ku Klux Klan?

• The KKK supported the ideas of Congressional Reconstruction.
• The KKK supported Black American politicians.
• The KKK used violence to terrorize Blacks from voting.
• The KKK agreed with Radical Republicans.

He was elected to the House of Representatives, but was expelled because he was black?

• Henry McNeal Turner

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Austin Dabney