2016.02.01 13:28Tenant Farming and SharecroppingTenant FarmingLandowner provides house and land. Landowner received set amount of cash or a portion of crop at end of season. Tenant farmers usually made small...
2016.02.01 13:26Economic Reconstruction•landowners needed laborers to work their large farms•two systems emerged– tenant farming– sharecropping.•cotton - GA’s most important crop•continuous growing of tobacco ...
2016.02.01 13:23African Americans in Politics•election of 1867–first time African Americans voted.•several African Americans elected to GA’s General Assembly•Rev. Henry McNeal Turner–one of first black men elected i...
2016.02.01 13:08Freedmen's BureauOriginal purpose was to help booth former slaves and poor whites cape with their everyday problem by offering them clothing, food, and other necessities.Later became to h...
2016.01.29 18:04Ku Klux KlanOne of the secret organization that tried to keep freedmen from exercising their new civil rights.This organization began 1865 Pulaski, Tennessee as social group for retu...
2016.01.27 18:28Georgia ActPassed in December 1869Congressional legislation that returned Georgia to military leader which was the 3rd time after the Civil War.
2016.01.27 14:00Constitutional Convention of 1867All male vote (15th amendment)Free public education to all children.Women to control own property(1st amendment)Moved convention from Milledgeville to Atlanta
2016.01.27 13:45Interesting Facts about Reconstruction Era・Life Expectancy44.1 years for white males, 46.4 years for white females in 1870.・Costs of LivingVaried but, depending on the section of country. Rent averaged $10-$...
2016.01.27 13:21Reconstruction of Southern States By the end of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln developed a plan to rebuild the South and restore the southern states "Confederate States" to the Union quickly and...