8th Grade Louisiana History Midterm

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Across
  1. 4. buying and selling goods
  2. 6. the act of officially ending something
  3. 7. an agency created to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
  4. 13. Young, marriageable girls sent from France to Louisiana in 1728, each with a small trunk filled with clothing and goods needed to establish a household
  5. 15. the quantity of a good and cannot be changed
  6. 16. an 1820 agreement that brought Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  7. 18. this allowed the Union army to confiscate the property of those who continued to support the Confederacy during the Civil War
  8. 20. a penal labor practiced in the Southern United States where prisoners provided labor to private parties for an inexpensive price
  9. 22. a system of rules created by southern legislators that restricted the freedom of African Americans and required separate-but-equal public facilities
  10. 23. the period of time when the federal government withdrew its last troops from the south and attempted to rebuild the nation in the aftermath of secession and the Civil War
  11. 24. questioning people to obtain information or opinion
Down
  1. 1. a belief that the government could and should be used to help address social problems like poverty, illiteracy, and improving the conditions of all workers
  2. 2. anyone born in Louisiana who descendants were from another place
  3. 3. the name given to former slaves
  4. 5. the rights of individual states should prevail over the right of the federal government
  5. 8. "...that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  6. 9. a system of rules passed in many southern states after the Civil War that were designed to regulate the labor, movements, and behavior of former slaves and laid out rules for their masters
  7. 10. something that has been done and cannot be changed
  8. 11. Northerners who came south during reconstruction and were suspected of taking advantage of post war conditions to gain political power
  9. 12. French Canadians who came to Louisiana beginning in the 1760's
  10. 14. a protest in which people refuse to buy certain goods or use certain services until specific conditions are met
  11. 17. a place where the river meets the sea
  12. 19. a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use his land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land
  13. 21. a time in the nineteenth century America before the Civil War began