UNIT 8

2. During the Reconstruction Period (1867-1876), sixty-nine African American and Black people served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional
6. Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
11. A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
12. The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
15. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South

1. The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
3. 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.
4. Abolished slavery in the United States.
5. The plan that focused on restoring the Union quickly with minimal punishment for the South.
7. Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
8. 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.
9. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
10. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
13. To formally approve or pass.
14. The president who created a lenient plan for Reconstruction, but was opposed by Congress.