Unit 8

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Across
  1. 3. Amendment The law that abolished slavery in the United States.
  2. 4. The term used when a law is formally revoked or withdrawn.
  3. 5. Farming A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for a share of the crop, but owned their own equipment.
  4. 7. Reconstruction The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
  5. 9. Reconstruction The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
  6. 10. Klux Klan A terrorist organization formed to intimidate freedmen and Republicans in the South.
Down
  1. 1. Amendment The law that granted African American men the right to vote.
  2. 2. Bureau A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people.
  3. 3. Amendment The law that granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
  4. 4. The process of formally approving or passing a law.
  5. 6. A system where farmers worked on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed, giving a share of the crop to the landowner.
  6. 8. Codes A law passed during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen.