Reconstruction and New South Era
Across
- 4. a new system of farming where workers only needed the land to farm, but had equipment and supplies
- 9. required states to ratify the 14th and 15th amendment
- 12. gave freed African American males the right to vote
- 13. the time period after the Civil War that rebuilt the South and brought the South back into the Union
- 14. gave citizenship to freed African Americans
Down
- 1. the organization that helped support newly freed African Americans by giving them food, clothing, jobs and shelter.
- 2. abolished slavery in the United States
- 3. a violent political group that worked to defeat Republicans and scare black voters
- 4. the leader of the Populist Party
- 5. three leaders in the Democratic Party who pushed Georgia to become more self-sufficient by producing and manufacturing
- 6. the person considered the "voice of the New South"
- 7. also known as the 10 percent plan
- 8. a group of African Americans that were elected to Georgia's General Assembly, but were removed only days after coming into office
- 10. a new system of farming where workers relied on landowners for the land and supplies to farm, but could keep only a small portion of the crop - became a legal form of slavery
- 11. a plan that favored the South and let the South manage their own affairs