Black Codes

4. Era the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
6. a person advocating or supporting republican government.
7. imposed criminal fines on planters. attempting to poach labor already under an employment contract.
8. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
10. a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

1. work, especially hard physical work
2. the right to vote in political elections.
3. Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
5. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
9. Codes any of numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the American Civil War and intended to assure the continuance of white supremacy.