Chapter 17 Reconstructing the State.

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Across
  1. 5. A thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed
  2. 7. Johnson: The 17th president of the United States.
  3. 8. Amendment: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
  4. 9. Felton; English composer
  5. 10. Bureau: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Record Group 105), also known as the Freedmen’s Bureau,
  6. 12. lease system: Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States, the laborers being mainly African-American men; it was ended during the 20th century.
  7. 14. Johnson: He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 U.S. presidential election
  8. 16. Coluquitt: Alfred Holt Colquitt was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, and politician
  9. 19. lien: Sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who did not own the land they worked, obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants.
  10. 20. A system of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War, when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm laborers, many of whom were former slaves. The system called for dividing the crop into three shares — one for the landowner, one for the worker, and one for whoever provided seeds, fertilizer, and farm equipment.
  11. 22. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  12. 25. Johnson
  13. 26. Amendment: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
Down
  1. 1. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit
  2. 2. set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide:
  3. 3. tax : a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
  4. 4. klux klan: a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.\
  5. 6. Amendment: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery
  6. 11. a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain.
  7. 13. An emancipated slave.
  8. 15. Mcneal Turner: American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
  9. 17. O. Howard: Howard was the last surviving Union Army general to have held the permanent rank of a general in the regular U.S. Army.
  10. 18. supremacy: that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
  11. 19. Jones jenkins: Political life Jenkins first gained widespread attention as the author of the Georgia Platform, a proclamation by a special state convention that endorsed the Compromise of 1850.
  12. 21. Codes: any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans in the period immediately following the Civil War.
  13. 23. farming: Farming by a farmer who rents rather than owns the land.
  14. 24. a person who redeems.