Chapter 13: Reconstruction

Who was Henery Mcneal Turner?

Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 - May 8, 1915) was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War.

Who was tunnis campbell?

Born in Middlebrook, New Jersey, Tunis Campbell was one of nine other siblings. He was the son of a blacksmith. Campbell served as a Justice of the Peace, a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and as a Georgia state senator. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 4, 1891.

What were conditions like in the south after the civil war?

The conditions was bad after the civil war there was lierally no shelter because of the civil war

Tenant Farming

a person who farms rented land.

Carpetbagger

carpetbaggers" refers to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers

14th Amendment

defines citizenship and includes newly freed slaves

15th Amendment

ensures the right to vote canot be denied to any citizen on amount of ''race, color, or previous condition of servitude''

13th Amendment

officially ended slavery

Scalawag

scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War. Like the similar term "carpetbagger," the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates.

What is seregation

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.