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8th Grade
01/25/2011

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Reconstruction
Definition
Federal government attempted to rebuild(change)southern government, politics, and society
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Radical Republicans
Definition
felt that the south should be punished and called for military occupation of the south
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1872
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the year that congress granted amnesty to all but 500 confederates 
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Intimidate
Definition
frighten the south
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Price of cotton
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was high because of the great demand for it overseas
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Northern churches
Definition
helped the freedmans bureau sewt up churches, schools, and colleges after the civil war
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Lincoln
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the person who wanted to restore the union as a healing process
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Disfranchisement
Definition
taking away the right to vote
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Andrew johnson
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took over when lincoln was killed
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Three
Definition
number of times that the united states military occupied georgia
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Postbellum economy
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the economy when there was plenty of land, but a labor and capital shortage
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Henry Mcneal Turner
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black legislature excpelled from the Georgia legislature later organized the AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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Freed slaves
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most of them left their plantations after the war
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Milledgeville
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the capital city that refused to allow black legislators to stay in their hotels
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Postbellum
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the name of the era after the civil war ( NOT the economy)
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14th amendment
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amendment that granted citizen rights
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Antebellum economy
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economy that was based on cotton, slaves, and land
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Rufus bullock
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georgias first black congressman
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13th amendment
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this amendment stated that all slaves were free
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Jefferson long
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was georgias first republican governor
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Black codes
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these took away the political and civil rights of the freed slaves
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KKK
Definition
the group that tried to control the social, economic,and voting activities of blacks
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Impeach
Definition
to file charges to remove someone from office
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Freedman's bureau
Definition
agency that issued food, clothing, shelter and education to freed slaves
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Presidential reconstruction
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the name of lincolns plan to reconstruct the nation
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Sydney lanier
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he was a georgia poet who had a reservoir named after him
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Alexander stephens
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vice president of the confederacy, he served many, many years in the united states congress representing georgia
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Scalawags
Definition
northerners who gained high positions in southern government, and business after the civil war... they took advantage of southerners who needed money by paying "dirt cheap" prices for their land
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15th amendment
Definition
amendment that granted voting rights to freed black men not women
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carpetbaggers
Definition
southerners who took advantage of the south after the civil war ended
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capital
Definition
money
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capitol
Definition
where money is stored or manufactured
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