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| The period when the federal gov. planed to change or reconstruct the makeup of southern government, politics, and society before allowing the southern states back into the Union. |
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| Nonsoutherners who came to take advantage of economic and political situation. Many came with travel bags made of carpet material. |
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| White southerners who worked with carpetbaggers. They were often looked upon as traitors. |
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| Issued food, clothing, fuel and other supplies to needy white refugees and black freedmen. |
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| Laws limiting the political and civil rights of former slaves: no vote, no guns, no jury service, and required work contracts. |
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| Bring formal charges of wrongdoing against an elected official. |
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| In antebellum Ga, the economy had been based on land, labor, and capital. However in postbellum Ga, land was dirt cheap and plantation owners had plenty of it. Most owners sold their land because they needed money to pay taxes, buy equipment, livestock, seed, fertilizer, and labor. The southern states faced a shortage of workers because all of the slaves had been freed some however came back as sharecroppers. There was much money tied up in slaves which was lost after the war. The remaining confederate money was also worthless. Few had money and it was hard to borrow money because banks had collapsed. |
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| The 13th amendment declared all slaves free. The 14th amendment made them citizens and guaranteed them equal protection of the law. The 15th amendment gave them the right to vote. |
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| Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was to reunite the nation. He wanted to bring the seceded states back into the Union as soon as possible. However some Congressmen disapproved of Lincoln's plan. They felt the south should be punished. |
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| A southern actor who assassinated Lincoln |
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| only southerner not to resign his seat in the senate in 1861; assumed the presidency, determined to carry out Lincoln's plans |
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| Commander of the third district and ordered the convention be moved to Atlanta when black delegates were denied rooms in Milledgeville hotels. |
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| one of Georgia's two new senators |
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| governor who asked congress for help; December 1869, Georgia is under federal military control for the third time; army commander ordered the General Assembly to reseat the expelled black members; south Georgia, seven counties were placed under military occupation because of Klan terrorism; various laws were enacted to protect Republican voters |
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| Macon tailor; became Georgia’s first black congressman; after a short term, he resumed his business and remained active in Republican party politics |
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