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Unit 4 Lesson 3:
Reconstruction
 Created
to help freed slaves and poor
whites after the Civil War
 Morehouse College
 Sharecropping: Landowners
allows
farmers to use land and farming tools to
produce crops in return for a share of the
crops being produced.
 Tenant Farming: Tenants used their own
supplies to grow crops
 Lincoln
Plan: Southerners would be
pardoned if they took an oath of
allegiance
 Congressional
Plan: The South would be
treated like a conquered country
 Andrew
Johnson Plan: Approve the 13th
Amendment and get rid of secession
laws
 Neither
slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction.
 Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
 All
persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States and
of the state wherein they reside. No state
shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any
state deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
 The
right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any state on
account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
 First
black men to be elected in the
Georgia General Assembly in1867
 Were expelled (kicked out of office) in
1868 on the grounds that the constitution
gave African Americans the right to vote
but did not specifically give them the
right to hold political office.
 Secret
organization that tried to keep
freedmen from exercising their new civil
rights.
 Terrorized African Americans to keep
them from voting
 Beatings, whippings, murders