Reconstruction Intro

3. terror group created by former Confederate soldiers that used violence and intimidation tactics to disenfranchise blacks
5. the system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised
7. an amendment where the U.S. cannot deny a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
8. an insulting term used to describe a northern who moved to the south after the civil war
9. an amendment made all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including former slaves citizens of the country
11. a law passed by southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves
12. a former slave
13. a white southerner who worked with the republican party and the reconstruction government after the civil war
14. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
15. an organization formed by African Americans throughout the south after Reconstruction to protect their rights

1. an amendment banning slavery
2. African- American who was very influential as a religious leader and Georgia politician.
4. a series of laws that divided the previously Confederate states into military districts
6. one of the white politicians who took power after Georgia was readmitted to the Union in 1872
10. elected governor over a Democratic candidate, former Confederate General John B. Gordon