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- 2. amendment/ An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, that granted citizenship to the former slaves and fordable the states from denying anyone the "equal protection of the law".
- 5. General Assembly/ The legislature of the state of Georgia; consists of a senate and a house of representatives.
- 6. amendment/ An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal.
- 9. Reconstruction Plan/ In early 1866, Congressional Republicans, appalled by mass killing of ex-slaves and adoption of restrictive black codes, seized control of Reconstruction from President Johnson. ... The 14th Amendment also reduced representation in Congress of any southern state that deprived African Americans of the vote.
- 11. The legislative body of a country or state.
- 13. Reconstruction Plan/ Six weeks later, the assassination of Lincoln made him president. Johnson implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.
- 16. The period immediately after the civil war when the South rebuilt and the southern states reunited to the union.
- 18. Johnson/ He was the 17th president of the United States serving from 1865-1869, he became president because at the time he was vice president at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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- 1. amendment/ An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, that extended the right to vote to all males.
- 3. Ku Klux Klan/ A secret racist organization, formed in 1865, that worked to keep the freedmen from voting after the civil war.
- 4. Reconstruction Plan/ Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. ... Lincoln wanted to end the war quickly.
- 7. McNeal Turner/ was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). An African American, he was a pioneer in Georgia at organizing new congregations of the African Americans after the American Civil War.
- 8. after the civil war to restrict the rights of the freedmen.
- 10. An agricultural system common after the civil war where landless farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house, farming tools and animals, seed, and fertilizer in return for a share of the harvest.
- 12. Lincoln/ 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; he was assassinated in 1865.
- 14. Codes/ A set of laws passed by Georgia, and most southern
- 15. Crow Laws/ Laws passed in the south to establish "separate-but-equal" facilities for whites and for blacks.
- 17. farming/ An agricultural system common after the civil war where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed-upon share of the harvest; tenant farmers usually owned some agricultural equipment and animals.