Straight Outta Slavery

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Across
  1. 2. A system of farming where a tenant farmer gires a part of each crop as rent
  2. 4. Created to help former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food, clothing, and education to needy blacks and helped them obtain jobs and land.
  3. 6. A law that requires everyone to return runaway slaves
  4. 9. Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  5. 11. The amendment that gave all male citizens, including black men, the right to vote
  6. 12. Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Down
  1. 1. A term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities
  2. 3. The amendment that granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States
  3. 5. Laws that were passed to limit African-American freedoms in the South after Civil War
  4. 6. Ex-slaves who were freed after the war. Mostly didn't know what to do with freedom and didn't have money or supplies.
  5. 7. President during Civil War. Reelected, but soon shot and killed at the theater.
  6. 8. State laws in the South that legalized segregation.
  7. 10. The derogatory term given to white Southerners who cooperated with northern Reconstruction officials