Unit 5 - SS8H6c - Civil War/Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau was federal attempt to oppress (bring down) newly freed blacks.

For most of the 1800's, Georgia's most important cash crop was

Most Republicans in Congress agreed with Lincoln and wanted to forgive the south

The plan to rebuild the South and restore it to the Union was known as

How did the south support itself economically during the 1800's?

Who owned neither equipment, animal nor land?

A person was more likely to get ahead as tenant farmer than as a sharecropper

What was the 14th Amendment?

What was the 15th amendment?

Federal gov agency designed to help newly freed slaves adjust to new life at the end of the War

Who wanted to reconcile (get back together) the North and South?

Freed Slaves were often forced to work in slave like conditions as sharecroppers

Who owned animals and equipment, but not land?

How did the Union blockade hurt the south economically?

After Lincoln was assassinated, the new President of the United States was

What was the 13th Amendment?

For the Southern states that refuse to ratify the 14th Amendment, Radical Republicans

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in an effort to assist the Freedmen's Bureau

The first school for black in Georgia was founded in Milledgeville