Unit 8 recostruction

2. Reconstruction (1867-1877) – The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
4. Amendment (1868) – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
7. Bureau – A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
9. Plan-required states to end slavery by passing 13th amendment
10. Reconstruction (1866-1867) – The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
12. Farming – A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, tenant farmers usually owned their own farming equipment.
13. Codes – Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.

1. – A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to give the landowner a share of the crop.
3. Amendment (1865) – Abolished slavery in the United States.
4. Amendment (1870) – Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
5. – To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
6. Reconstruction Plan: Discuss the key points of this plan, including its main amendments and the political environment at the time.
8. – To formally approve or pass.
11. Bureau-a U.S. government agency established in 1865 to assist freed slaves (and other refugees) in the South during and after the Civil War
13. Legislators – During the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876), sixty-nine African American and Black people served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or as members of the state legislature. These legislators were removed from their positions after 1876.
14. Klux Klan – A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.