Unit 8 Social Studies Crosswords

1. Bureau – A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
5. – To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
7. 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.
8. Amendment (1868) – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
10. Era - a period in the United States after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and reintegrating it into the Union
11. Codes – Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
12. Reconstruction (1866-1867) – The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.

2. – 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.
3. plan - required Southern states to draft new constitutions that abolished slavery but did not guarantee civil rights for African Americans
4. Amendment (1870) – Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
6. 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.
8. Amendment (1865) – Abolished slavery in the United States.
9. Klux Klan – A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
11. 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.
13. – To formally approve or pass.