Chapter 17 Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
  2. 3. agricultural system after the Civil War where landless farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house, farming,tools,animals,seeds,and fertilizer in return for a share of the crop harvested
  3. 4. Amendment: amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, that granted citizenship to all born in the United States; this broad language included former slaves
  4. 6. the newly freed slaves
  5. 7. Tax : a tax paid to be able to vote
  6. 8. supremacy: white control of government and society based on the belief that the white race is superior to any other race
  7. 10. to separate by race
  8. 12. Amendment:an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1870, which said race could not be used to deny voting rights
  9. 13. Bureau: a federal government organization established in 1865 that helped the newly freed slaves
  10. 14. 17 “Reconstructing the state” Vocab
  11. 16. negative nickname given to the northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
  12. 18. negative nickname given to Southerners who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
  13. 19. Klux Klan: a secret racist organization, formed in 1866, that worked to keep freedmen from voting after the Civil War
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  1. 2. Amendment: an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
  2. 5. period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
  3. 9. lease system: a system in Georgia after the Civil War in which prisoners were leased to companies for their labor; companies were supposed to provide housing and food
  4. 11. Georgia Democrats who, in the period immediately following Reconstruction, worked to “save” the state from the North’s Reconstruction
  5. 15. 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
  6. 16. lien: a system of credit which allows farmers to receive commodities such as food, supplies, and seeds, on loan(of 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.
  7. 17. Codes: a set of laws passed by Georgia, and most southern states, after the Civil War to restrict the rights of the freemen