Chapter 17 Vocab

4. To separate by race
8. A system in Georgia after the Civil War in which prisoners were leased to companies for labor
9. White control of government and society based on belief that the white race is superior
13. Appointed Georgia’s first provisional governor following the conclusion of the Civil War
15. Georgia Democrats who worked to “save” the state from the North’s Reconstruction policies
18. A planter and medical doctor representing north Georgia
20. A nickname for Northerners who moved South after the Civil War
21. An american lawyer, preacher, and politician
22. Abolished slavery in the US, ending a long and civil war which divided the nation
23. An emancipated slave
24. Johnson- Played an anomalous role but a central role in the heated sectional politics of the 1850s and 1860s
26. Governor of Reconstruction Georgia from 1865 to 1868
27. A tumultuous period after the civil war, when the US tried to reunite and rebuild

1. The last surviving Union General to have held permanent rank in the regular U.S Army
2. An agricultural system common after the Civil War where landless farmers worked the land of landowners who also supplied a house
3. A federal government organization that helped the freedmen after the Civil War
5. A secret racist organization that worked to keep the freedmen from voting
6. A system of credit which allowed farmers to receive commodities
7. A pioneering church organizer, was an active politician and Reconstruction-era legislator
10. Unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
11. Was the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869
12. Gave black men the right to vote in 1870
14. A nickname for Southerners who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
16. Southern states created these laws that aimed to keep white supremacy in place
17. A tax paid to be able to vote
19. Granted citizenship and rights to former slaves
25. An agricultural system common after the Civil War where a farmer worked land of a landowner for cash