Straight Outta Slavery
Across
- 2. A system of farming where a tenant farmer gires a part of each crop as rent
- 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.
- 6. A law that requires everyone to return runaway slaves
- 9. Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
- 11. The amendment that gave all male citizens, including black men, the right to vote
- 12. Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Down
- 1. A term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities
- 3. The amendment that granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States
- 5. Laws that were passed to limit African-American freedoms in the South after Civil War
- 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.
- 7. President during Civil War. Reelected, but soon shot and killed at the theater.
- 8. State laws in the South that legalized segregation.
- 10. The derogatory term given to white Southerners who cooperated with northern Reconstruction officials