Reconstruction(Dinner)

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  1. 1. Amendment Declared that no citizen of the U.S. could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous servitude.
  2. 2. Amendment Freed all slaves in the U.S.
  3. 4. There were approximately 700,000 eligible African American ______ in the South. By 1867, about 80% of Georgia's black adult males became registered ______.
  4. 7. Republicans This was a group of members within the Republican party of the United States.
  5. 11. Plan One-tenth of the people in the state had to take an oath to obey the U.S constitution.
  6. 13. Farming Often owned animals, equipment, and supplies, so they received more of the harvest.
  7. 14. Black people were given more political rights than they ever had. With this freedom, 32 black legislators were elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1867. The Georgia General Assembly is apart of the ______________.
  8. 16. Klux Klan A social club for former confederate soldiers, but quickly became more political and violent.
  9. 17. Bureau The U.S. government established the ________________ __________ in 1865, which gave food ,clothing,medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves.
  10. 18. Plan Wade Davis bill was passed by Radical Republicans. It was stricter and required the majority of voters to take a loyalty oath to the Union. Lincoln vetoed the bill and rejected their plan.
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  1. 1. Amendment Granted Citizenship to all people born in the United States
  2. 3. McNeal Turner an educated minister who had served as the first black chaplain in the U.S. Army was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1868 election for the Georgia Assembly.
  3. 5. Was the name given to the time period after the Civil War from 1865-1877. Means to build something again.
  4. 6. plan Southern states could come back into the Union if they ratified the 13th Amendment.
  5. 8. White southerners did not want blacks to become educated because they feared educated blacks would want political equality.
  6. 9. Agriculture experts urged farmers to grow other crops besides _________, but there was still a huge demand for _________ in the north and Europe. They didn't do crop rotation because of crops not being diverse.
  7. 10. Workers had little hope of ever owning land because they rarely made a profit.
  8. 12. ___________ slaves was forbidden in Georgia prior to the Civil War. The first school for blacks opened in an old Savannah slave mart in 1865.
  9. 15. North Many ________ investors provided the money to rebuild farms, cotton mills, and railroad across the South in order to quicken the region's recovery.
  10. 18. War Fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South.