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2. Codes – Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
3. – To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
6. Reconstruction (1866-1867) – The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
9. - A war between the North and South in 1861 - 1865
10. Southern states during the Civil War
12. Amendment (1870) – Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
13. Northern states during the civil war
14. Amendment (1868) – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
15. Reconstruction (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.

1. Presidential decree of 1863 that stated all slaves in the South were free
2. Legislators – 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.
4. Bureau – A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
5. – To formally approve or pass.
7. – 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.
8. Farming – 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.
11. Klux Klan – A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
12. Amendment (1865) – Abolished slavery in the United States.