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3. – During the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876), sixty-nine African American and Black people served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or as members of the state legislature. These legislators were removed from their positions after 1876.
6. – A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
7. (1865) – Abolished slavery in the United States.
8. being out of somebody else's control
9. – Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
10. – 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.
11. – To formally approve or pass.
12. – 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.
14. (1867-1877) – The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.

1. – A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
2. (1870) – Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
4. (1866-1867) – The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
5. (1868) – Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
10. owning a person
13. – To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.