Across
- 3. Plan that punished former confederate states and protected african americans
- 6. A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- 7. Give formal consent to something, making it officially valid
- 9. A government agency which helped freedmen and poor whites
- 10. Amendment that ensures equal protection under the law and protects the rights of citizens
- 11. Amendment that abolished slavery
- 12. Amendment that guarantees that all adult male citizens have the right to vote
- 13. Economically disadvantaged whites
- 14. Farming An agricultural labor system that involves the farmer not owning the land they work on and having to pay a portion of their crop yield or profits to the landlord as rent
- 15. Focused on restoring the Southern states to the Union as quickly as possible by offering amnesty and pardons to most white Southerners who pledged loyalty
Down
- 1. a violent post-Civil War secret society founded in Tennessee in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction
- 2. The period of time from the end of the Civil War until southern states rejoined the Union
- 4. The practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color
- 5. Laws passed in the south that discriminated against Freedmen
- 8. Would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people