6.08 African Americans During Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. Amendment – The amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
  2. 5. Farming – A system where farmers rented land and had a little more control, but still owed money to landowners.
  3. 7. Klux Klan – A violent hate group that terrorized African Americans and tried to stop them from exercising their new rights.
  4. 8. of 1877 – The agreement that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
  5. 10. Bureau – Government agency that helped formerly enslaved people with food, jobs, and education after the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. – A farming system where workers used someone else’s land and had to give a large part of their crops as payment.
  2. 2. Amendment – The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
  3. 3. Codes – Laws in the South that restricted the rights and freedoms of freed African Americans.
  4. 4. Amendment – The amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
  5. 6. – Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, often to take political or economic advantage of Reconstruction.
  6. 9. Lien System – A credit system where farmers borrowed supplies and had to repay with future crops, often trapping them in debt.