Chapter 17 Reconstructing the State

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Across
  1. 2. McNeal Turner was an American minister, politician, and served in the state’s constitutional convention and then was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives
  2. 5. Felton was an American Independent politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
  3. 6. Johnson appointed Provisional Governor of Georgia by President Andrew Johnson during the Reconstruction era, serving for most of 1865
  4. 7. Lien a system of credit which allowed farmers to receive commodities such as food, supplies, seeds, etc on a loan to pay the debt after their crop was harvested and sold
  5. 8. period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and southern states returned to the Union
  6. 14. a nickname given to northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
  7. 15. Tax a tax paid to be able to vote
  8. 17. Johnson he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  9. 20. Amendment an amendment that granted citizenship to all born in the United States
  10. 22. Colquitt was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, politician, and governor of Georgia
  11. 23. an agricultural system where landless farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house, farming tools and animals, seed, and fertilizer in exchange for a share of the crop harvested
  12. 24. O. Howard led the Freedmen’s Bureau
  13. 26. farming a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed-upon share of the harvest
  14. 27. Bureau a government organization established in 865 that helped the newly freed slaves after the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. the newly freed slaves
  2. 3. Supremacy white control of government and society based on the belief that the white race is superior to any other race
  3. 4. unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
  4. 9. Lease System a system of forced prisioners labor practiced in the Southern United States, primarily after the Civil War, where states leased the labor of incarcerated people to private businesses and individual
  5. 10. Amendment an amendment that made slavery illegal
  6. 11. Codes a set of laws passed by Georgia to restrict the rights of the freedmen
  7. 12. Jones Jenkins was a leader in the convention that drafted a new state constitution
  8. 13. nickname given to Southerners who supported the Republicans during reconstruction
  9. 16. Amendment an amendment that said race could not be used to deny voting rights
  10. 18. Klux Klan a secret racist organization, formed in 1866, that worked to keep the freedmen from voting after the Civil War
  11. 19. Johnson supported public education, states’ rights, and unionism
  12. 21. to separate by race
  13. 25. Georgia Democrats who worked to “save” the state from the North’s Reconstruction policies