Unit 7b

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Across
  1. 2. lease system a system in Georgia after the Civil War in which prisoners were leased to companies for their labor; companies were supposed to provide housing and food
  2. 5. Codes a set of laws passed by Georgia, and most southern states, after the Civil War to restrict the rights of the freedmen
  3. 6. Amendment an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
  4. 7. tax a tax paid to be able to vote
  5. 8. a negative nickname given to northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
  6. 10. Amendment an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, that granted citizenship to all born in the United States; this broad language included former slaves
  7. 12. the newly freed slaves
  8. 14. Proclamation a document issued by President Lincoln in 1862 that declared freedom for slaves in states “in rebellion”; that made it possible to free slaves as the Union army took control of areas in the Confederate States
  9. 15. to separate by race
Down
  1. 1. Amendment an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, which said race could not be used to deny voting rights
  2. 3. an agricultural system common after the Civil War where landless farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house, farming tools and animals, seed, and fertilizer in return for a share of the crop harvested
  3. 4. Bureau a federal government organization established in 1865 that helped the newly freed slaves after the Civil War
  4. 5. to obstruct or prevent access to
  5. 9. Georgia Democrats who, in the period immediately following Reconstruction, worked to “save” the state from the North’s Reconstruction policies
  6. 11. lien a system of credit which allowed farmers to receive commodities such as food, supplies, and seeds, on loan (or credit) and pay this debt back after their crop was harvested and sold. Therefore, there was a lien against the crop. The amount of credit that was received was based on the estimated value of the crop.
  7. 13. farming an agricultural system common after the Civil War where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed-upon share of the harvest; tenant farmers usually owned some agricultural equipment and farm animals