Unit 8

3. Abolished slavery in the United States
5. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
9. 16th President of the U.S., serving during the Civil War. He emancipated enslaved people,and was assassinated in 1865.
12. The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
14. To formally approve or pass.
15. Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.

1. Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
2. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
4. federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
6. a promise or oath required of all who fought or aided the Confederacy, promising to never fight against the U.S.
7. 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.
8. 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.
10. 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.
11. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
13. 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.