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1. Illegal killing, usually by hanging, by violent mobs.
5. To file charges to remove a politician from office.
7. White Republican who became Georgia’s governor in 1868.
10. Sherman’s _________. Railroad tracks that had been heated over fire and then twisted around trees.
12. Approved in 1870, this Amendment was designed to protect the voting rights of blacks.
14. To frighten or threaten persons in order to control their actions
15. Sherman’s ________. Blackened chimneys, often the only thing left standing after a house or building was burned.
17. Period after the Civil War.
18. Former Confederate general who was defeated by Rufus Bullock in the 1868 race for governor.
19. A southerner who worked with carpetbaggers or Union Army officials during Reconstruction.
21. Added to the Constitution in 1868, it made blacks citizens of the United States and gave them equal protection of the law. It also made the federal government protector of the rights of citizens regardless of which state they lived in.

2. Money and resources available for spending or producing goods or income.
3. Former governor who in 1865 was named by the Georgia legislature as one the state’s two U.S. senators.
4. (3 words) Domestic terrorist organization whose goal was to return the southern Democrats to power.
6. The period after the Civil War when the federal government took control of the former Confederate states in an attempt to change them before readmitting them to the Union.
8. A nonsoutherner who came to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of its economic and political situation.
9. (2 words)Laws passed by southern legislatures after the Civil War to limit the political and civil rights of former slaves.
11. Georgian who served as vice-president of the Confederacy and as a congressman both before and after the Civil War and was governor of Georgia in 1882.
12. (2 words)Federal Reconstruction agency which issued food, clothing, fuel, and other supplies to black freedmen and some needy whites.
13. Amendment to the Constitution added in 1865 that made slavery illegal anywhere in the United States.
16. Macon tailor who, in 1870, became the first black Georgian elected to Congress.
20. Pardon granted by the government to a large group of people for something they did.