unit 8

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Across
  1. 2. Amendment – Abolished slavery in the United States.
  2. 4. Bureau – Gave aid to former enslaved people after the Civil War.
  3. 5. – Farming system where freedmen worked land and gave a portion to landowners.
  4. 7. Reconstruction – Military ruled the South in districts during Reconstruction.
  5. 9. – To formally approve or pass.
  6. 12. Reconstruction – Congress took control of reuniting the South.
  7. 13. Codes – Laws that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
Down
  1. 1. – The status of being a legal member of a country.
  2. 2. Amendment – Gave African American and Black men the right to vote.
  3. 3. – The time period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt.
  4. 6. Amendment – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
  5. 8. – To take back or cancel a law.
  6. 10. Farming – Similar to sharecropping, but farmers had their own tools.
  7. 11. Legislators – African Americans who served in government during Reconstruction.
  8. 14. Klux Klan – A group that used violence to stop freedmen from voting.