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Chapter 9 test 2015
1. Which aspects of Georgia life was affected by Reconstruction policies? Politics,
economics, and agriculture.
2. White Southerners blamed the Republican Party for many economic and political abuses
during Reconstruction. As a result, Georgia politics were dominated by the Democratic
Party. What effect did this one-party system have on the development of Georgia?
Segregation of the races resumed.
3. Why did federal troops occupy Georgia for a third time in 1869? Black legislators were
expelled from the General Assembly and the Ku Klux Klan had grown stronger.
4. After the Civil War, the typical planter in Georgia had plenty of land but no labor to work it.
How was slave labor replaced in Georgia? Landowners allowed people with no land to
grow crops on their acreage for a share of those crops (Sharecropping and Tenant
Farming).
5. Which organization did the federal government create in 1865 to supervise the transition of
slaves to freedom? Freedmen's Bureau
6. A supporter of President Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction would most likely have agreed
that…It is important that the North support policies that help the South recover as quickly
as possible.
7. "New South" advocates such as Henry Grady used propaganda to persuade…..increasing
industrialization by using local resources.
8. What happened to agriculture in Georgia after the Civil War? Plantation owners had land
but little money to pay people to work it.
9. During the New South Era, why did Georgia host three "expositions" between 1881 and
1895? to attract new industries
10. The Bourbon Triumvirate helped Georgia through the rough economic times after
Reconstruction BUT….they did little to improve poor working conditions in factories, didn’t
provide educational opportunities and job training for the poor after the Civil War, Did not
improve mental hospitals, and they did not improve the prison system.
11. After Reconstruction, why was there a "white backlash" in Georgia against the Republican
Party? Scalawags and carpetbaggers were associated with the Republican Party.
12. A key part of Henry Grady's definition of the "New South" was..an increase in the amount
of manufacturing.
13. During the late 1800s, many Georgia Democrats believed that the "New South” prosperity
depended on manufacturing rather than cotton. What important political group that helped
enforce these ideas was the…Bourbon Triumvirate.
14. What was the ultimate impact of sharecropping on freed black people in the South after the
Civil War? It kept most black people impoverished and in debt to white landowners.
15. What was a result of the "New South" movement in the 1870s and 1880s? There was a
trend toward industrialization and diversification of agriculture
16. _Rebecca Latimer Felton__ was the Atlanta Journal writer who campaigned for reforms,
women's suffrage, and temperance in Georgia.
17. The prison system, from which the Bourbon Triumvirate benefitted, that allowed prisoners
to work for private businesses was called the __Convict Lease System_.
18. How did the convict lease system hurt Georgia? It caused unemployment and false
imprisonments.
19. Who were Freedmen? Former Slaves
20. Lincoln’s reconstruction plan was called the 10% plan because it required 10% of a state’s
_Voters_____ to take an oath of Loyalty before a state could rejoin the Union.
21. Johnson’s Reconstruction plan required people who owned more than __20,000___dollars
in property to apply directly to the president for a pardon.
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Chapter 9 test 2015
22. The __Ku Klux Klan_ used terror and intimidation to try and keep freedmen from
exercising their new civil and voting rights. Their activities led to Georgia being placed
under military rule in 1869.
23. The __15th___ amendment to the US Constitution gave everyone but women the right to
vote.
24. The ___13th______ amendment to the US Constitution ended slavery.
25. _Black Codes__________ were laws that restricted the rights of blacks in southern states.
26. People who owned tools and animals, but had to rent land were referred to Tenant
farmers.
27. Who was Henry McNeal Turner? One of the first African Americans elected to Georgia’s
General Assembly.
28. The Bourbon Triumvirate was an important group in Georgia after Reconstruction. Which
best describes the members of this group’s economic involvement? Supporters of the
"New South" movement
29. The Congressional reconstruction plan required that the southern states ratify the _14th___
amendment. This amendment to the US Constitution forbade the states from making any
laws that would limit the rights of citizens and defined who were citizens.
30. Fill out the Reconstruction Plans Chart Below:
Lincoln's plan
1. All Southerners,
except for high
ranking civil and
military leaders would
be pardon after taking
an oath to the USA.
2. When 10% of the
voters in each state
had taken the oath of
loyalty, the state
would be permitted to
form a legal
government and
rejoin the Union.
Johnson's plan
Congressional plan
1. Same as Lincoln’s plus:
2. Expanded group of
Southerners who had to
seek a pardon from the
president to those who
owned more than
$20,000.00 in property.
3. Southern States had to
approve the 13th
amendment.
4. Nullify their ordinance of
secession.
5. Southern States had to
promise not to pay
individuals and
institutions that helped
finance the Confederacy.
1. Passed 14th Amendment
to oppose black codes.
2. Southern States must
ratify the 14th
Amendment.
3. State governments could
not establish a state
military and each state
was assigned a Federal
military commander.
4. Each State’s constitution
had to include the rights
of African Americans to
vote.
5. Each state was required
to have their citizens ratify
their new constitution and
the 14th Amendment.