Reconstruction

2. laws created by Southern legislatures during the Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen
3. to pass
6. abolished slavery
7. 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.
9. terror group that wanted to prevent black Americans from gaining political power
10. granted black Americans US citizenship
12. Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union

1. person during this period that went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
4. federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people
5. to revoke
8. farmers who agreed to work on land property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop.
11. granted black American the right to vote