Across
- 2. Codes-Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the civil rights of freedmen
- 6. Amendment-Abolished slavery in the United States
- 7. Lincoln-16th President of the United States
- 10. Reconstruction (1866-1867)-The period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union
- 12. formally approve or pass
- 13. Johnson- Southern Democrat who ran with Abraham Lincoln on the National Party Ticket
- 14. Amendment-Granted African American and Black men the right to vote
Down
- 1. Reconstruction (1867-1877)-The period of Reconstruction when the military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union;the South divided into military districts
- 3. terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South
- 4. Bureau-A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people(freedmen).
- 5. system where farmers worked on a landowner's property in exchange for land,farming equipment,and seed;sharrecroppers were required to give the landowner a share of the crop
- 8. Farming-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
- 9. legislators-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
- 11. Amendment-Granted U.S. citizenship to African Americans and Black people
- 12. revoke or withdraw formally,especially a law