Chapter 17 crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. tax- a tax paid to be able to vote
  2. 5. Fifteenth Amendment- an amendment to the U.S Constitution ratified in 1870 which said race could not be used to deny voting rights
  3. 7. Klux Klan- a secret racist organization formed in 1866 that work to keep the freedmen voting after the civil war
  4. 9. - unfair treatment of a person or group because or prejudice
  5. 10. crop lien- a system of credit which allowed farmers to receive commodities such as food , supplies and seeds on loan or credit and pay this debt back after their crop was harvested and sold therefore there was a lien against the crop the amount of credit that was received was based on the estimated value of the crop
  6. 12. sharecropping - agricultural system common after the civil war where land less farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house farming tools and animals seed and fertilizer in return for a share of the crop harvested
  7. 14. georgia democrats who in the period immediately following reconstruction worked save the state from the north reconstruction policies
  8. 15. Amendment - an amendment to the U.S constitution ratified in 1865 that made slavery
Down
  1. 1. a newly freed slaves
  2. 3. the period immediately after the civil war when the south rebuilt and the southern states returned to the union
  3. 4. codes- a set of laws passed by georgia and most southern states after the civil war to restrict the rights to freedmen
  4. 6. negative nickname given to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war
  5. 8. Fourteenth Amendment- an amendment to the U.S Constitution ratified in 1868 that granted citizenship to all citizens to all born in the united states this broad language included former slaves
  6. 9. lease system -a system in georgia after the civil war in which prisoners were leased to companies were supposed to provide housing and food
  7. 10. supremacy- white control of government and society based on the belief that the white race is a superior to any other race
  8. 11. to separate by race
  9. 12. Bureau- a federal government organization established in 1865 that helped a newly freed slaves after the civil war
  10. 13. scalawag, - negative nickname given to southerners who supported the republicans during reconstruction
  11. 14. tenant farming- an agricultural system common after the civil war where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed upon share of the harvest tenant farmers usually owned some agricultural equipment and farm animals