Unit 7 Word Search

3. – A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
5. pardoning Confederate leaders and returning confiscated land, while also requiring states to ratify the 13th Amendment and swear loyalty to the Union.
7. Ten Percent Plan, aimed for a swift and lenient return of Confederate states to the Union.
10. (1865) – Abolished slavery in the United States.
11. (1870) – Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
13. – To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
14. – A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
15. (1866-1867) – The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.

1. (1867-1877) – The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
2. – A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, tenant farmers usually owned their own farming equipment.
4. – Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
6. (1868) – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
8. – A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to give the landowner a share of the crop.
9. – To formally approve or pass.
12. – During the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876), sixty-nine African American and Black people served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or as members of the state legislature. These legislators were removed from their positions after 1876.