Reconstruction after Civil War

Group of Northern Republicans who wanted to punish the Southern states and to insure civil rights for African-Americans.

• Radical Republicans

• Union Republicans

• Righteous Republicans

• Right Republicans

(1865-1866)- Reconstruction period where the President took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; most lenient of the Reconstruction plans; commonly known as 10% plan.

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Military Reconstruction

• Post War Reconstruction

(1867-1877)- Reconstruction period where the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Military Reconstruction

• Post War Reconstruction

(1866-1867)- Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Post War Reconstruction

• Military Reconstruction

Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop

• Tennant Farmers

• Sharecroppers

• Row Farmers

• Plantation Farmers

Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed

• Sharecroppers

• Plantation Farmers

• Tennant Farmers

• Row Farmers

During the Reconstruction Period, sixty-nine African-Americans served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or served as members of the state legislature. These men and women were removed from their seats after 1876.

• Black Representatives

• Black Congressmen

• Black Senators

• Black Legislators

Federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves.

• Freedman's Bureau

• Freedom Agency

• Black Legislators

• Federal Bureau for Free Men

Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.

• Red Knights

• Freedom Riders

• Ku Klux Klan

• White Supremacists

Gave African-American men the right to vote

• 19th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment