Chapter 9 - Civil War and Reconstruction - myWorld Social Studies

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Across
  1. 2. Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money
  2. 10. a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area
  3. 11. the right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws
  4. 13. the period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War
  5. 14. the separation of a state from nation
  6. 15. an official announcement
  7. 16. a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, kept African Americans from owning guns or taking certain types of jobs
  8. 17. a person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery
  9. 22. together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America
  10. 23. the division of groups of people, usually by race
Down
  1. 1. before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North
  2. 3. to murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons
  3. 4. the freeing of a group from slavery
  4. 5. a situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an agreement
  5. 6. a change or improvement
  6. 7. a large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop
  7. 8. the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War
  8. 9. to join the military
  9. 12. a military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender
  10. 18. a method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender
  11. 19. a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else "rent" the land to farm it
  12. 20. the bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives
  13. 21. the United States; also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War