UNIT 8 CROSSWORD!

2. Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people.
4. Abolished slavery in the United States.
6. 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.
11. An industry that moved to georgia due to mild climate and lower taxes
12. A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people (freedmen).
13. Granted African American and Black men the right to vote.
14. To formally approve or pass
15. 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.

1. The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
3. A terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
5. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law.
7. Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted freedmen's rights.
8. The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union; the South was divided into military districts.
9. 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.
10. A crop that is extremely profitable in the south