GA studies Unit 7 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. ended slavery in the United States.
  2. 3. gave African-American or Black men the right to vote.
  3. 7. terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South
  4. 10. Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
  5. 12. laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen.
  6. 13. president after lincoln assassination
  7. 14. Reconstruction period where the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
  8. 15. GA representative
Down
  1. 1. during the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876) sixty-nine African-Americans or Blacks served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or served as members of the state legislature. These legislators were removed from their seats after 1876.
  2. 4. farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, tenant farmers usually owned their own farming equipment.
  3. 5. gave African-Americans or Blacks United States citizenship.
  4. 6. farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop.
  5. 8. to pass
  6. 9. federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
  7. 11. to revoke or withdraw formally or officially; usually refers to a law