Post-Civil War Legislation and Events

Why was the Georgia Platform important

• It stated that Georgia had a right to nullify any federal law dealing with cotton

• I stated that Georgia would not accept the terms of the COmpromise of 1850 if the North enforced the Fugitive Slave Law

• It stated that Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850 if the North enforced the Fugitive Slave Law

• It stated that Georgia would secede from the Union

What was the impact of Sherman's "March to the Sea"?

• The Union soldiers lost their will to fight

• It led to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation

• It gave the South hope that they would win

• It left a path of devastation and destruction from Atlanta to Savannah

What is being described? California was admitted as a free state; Fugitive Slave Act was passed; Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Georgia Platform

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Compromise of 1850

What were Black Codes?

• Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

• Laws designed to help freed blacks and poor whites navigate the South after the end of the Civil War.

• Addendums to the Reconstruction Amendments.

• Laws designed to limit the freedom of poor whites in the South after the end of the Civil War.

What was the ultimate goal of the KKK?

• To intimidate freed blacks and white Republicans from voting and running for office during the Reconstruction period.

• To intimidate whites to keep them from voting and running for office.

• To dance around in fancy pajamas while listening to Rhianna.

• To help freed blacks find jobs and get an education.

What was the ultimate goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To give an economic boost to African Americans and poor whites by helping them learn to read and write through formal education.

• To help poor whites become educated.

• To create opportunities for poor whites.

• To educate all Southerners.

Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon were known as the

• 3 Musketeers

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Populists

• Henry Grady's Guys

This set of laws enforced segregation:

• John Eagle Laws

• Disenfranchisement Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• The KKK Laws

Taking away African American's right to vote is:

• Disenfranchisement

• Atlanta Race Riot

• Segregation

• Party Laws

The Leo Frank Case symbolized:

• The need for modern DNA Technology

• The growing voice of a Jewish community

• White Southerners' strong anti-Semitic feelings during the New South period

• Black Southerner's resilience to hatred.