Unit 8 SS Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. legislators that were removed from their positions after 1876.
  2. 7. Period of reconstruction when the Military took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union(Military districts)
  3. 9. A federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former enslaved people
  4. 10. President that followed suit after Lincoln's Assassination
  5. 13. 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.
  6. 15. Amendment that Abolished slavery
Down
  1. 1. Amendment that granted U.S citizenship to African Americans
  2. 2. Terrorist organization formed to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South
  3. 3. To revoke or withdraw formally, especially a law
  4. 5. 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.
  5. 6. Amendment that Granted African Americans the right to vote
  6. 8. Period of reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union
  7. 11. Original president that came up with the idea to reconstruct the south
  8. 12. laws created during reconstruction that restricted the Civil rights of freedmen
  9. 14. To formally approve or pass