Unit 8

2. Giving African American the right to vote
4. To bring the South back to the union as fast as possible
7. To approve or pass
9. During the Reconstruction Period,sixty-nine African American served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or as members of the state legislature
11. Equal right for African American
13. To give the south their political power back
15. A federal agency to provide aid to former enslaved people

1. The period of Reconstruction when Congress took over to give the south back to the union
3. The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the divided south military districts back in the union
5. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen/Republicans from gaining political power in the South
6. 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
8. 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
10. Abolished slavery in the United States
12. Laws created by Southern legislatures that restricted the civil rights of freedmen
14. To revoke a law