Unit 8 (Social Studies Project)

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Across
  1. 5. A big industry in Georgia, bringing lots of investment and money
  2. 8. Aimed to rebuild the South after the war
  3. 9. Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
  4. 12. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
  5. 13. Ten Percent Policy and make the Confederacy join the Union as fast as possible
  6. 14. 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
  7. 15. To formally approve or pass.
Down
  1. 1. Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
  2. 2. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
  3. 3. 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. 4. The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
  5. 6. A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
  6. 7. To punish the Confederacy
  7. 10. Abolished slavery in the United States.
  8. 11. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.