Reconstruction Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Amendment: Constitutional change that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
  2. 5. Farming: Farming system where renters pay landowners with cash or crops for use of land and tools
  3. 7. Klux Klan: White supremacist group that used terror and violence to suppress Black political participation
  4. 8. of 1877: Political deal that ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South
  5. 10. Bureau: Federal agency that provided food, schools, and legal aid to formerly enslaved people
Down
  1. 1. Labor system where workers farm a landowner’s land in exchange for a share of the crop
  2. 2. Amendment: Constitutional change that abolished slavery in the United States
  3. 3. Codes: Southern laws designed to limit the freedom and rights of African Americans after the Civil War
  4. 4. Amendment: Constitutional change that prohibited denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous servitude
  5. 6. Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction, often seen as opportunists by Southerners
  6. 9. Lien System: Credit system where merchants held a claim on future crops, trapping farmers in debt