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4. a change and or addition to the U.S constitution
7. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
8. to formally approve or pass
9. 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.
10. the practice of forcing people to work without pay
13. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
14. People making decisions by elections
15. (1866-1867)Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.

1. districts the South was divided into ____ during military reconstrunction
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
3. A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
5. (1867-1877)when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union
6. Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
11. Abolish slavery in the United states
12. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.