Reconstruction in Georgia History

On what grounds did the state lawmakers claim to remove the Black members of the Georgia General Assembly?

• The 14th Amendment specifically prohibited black members.

• The Back members would need to be reelected after re-admittance.

• The Back members had deceived voters to get elected into the Assembly.

• The state constitution did not recognize Blacks' rights to hold public office.

What did the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Granted freedom of speech
• Outlawed slavery in the United States
• Guaranteed gun ownership
• Ended the Civil War

What did the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Freed the slaves
• Created the U.S. Navy
• Former slaves are citizens of the United States.
• Gave women the right to vote.

What agency help former slaves with food, clothing, jobs, school and hospitals?

• Freed Slave Alliance
• Freed People's Agency
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Abraham's Friends

What did the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Gave women the right to vote.
• Freed the slaves.
• Black men could vote.
• Freed slaves are citizens.

A person who did not own land, tools or anything else but offered his labor to work the land is:

• A tenant farmer
• A Sharecropper
• A Successful Farmer.
• An owner of 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.

After the Civil War, the period between 1865-1875 was known as what time in Georgia's history?

• The Civil War
• The New South
• Reconstruction
• Redemption

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution ______________________.

• abolished slavery

• gave women the right to vote.

• gave blacks the right to vote.

• ended the civil war.

Who favored harsher punishment on the Reconstruction plans?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Congressional Republicans

• Confederate leaders