Chapter 9 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. - system in which someone owns land and lets someone “rent” the land to farm it
  2. 4. - a barrier of troops or ships to people and supplies from moving in
  3. 5. - charges of wrongdoing against any elected official brought by the House of Representatives
  4. 6. - official announcement
  5. 8. - the rebuilding and healing of the country
  6. 10. - someone who wants to abolish, or get rid of, slavery
  7. 11. - laws that denied African Americans certain rights
  8. 12. - newcomers to the South who carried all their belongings in cloth suitcases
  9. 13. - rights for states to make their own local laws
  10. 15. - military blockade designed to make a city surrender
  11. 16. - big farms
  12. 18. - when each side gives in a little to reach an agreement
  13. 20. - separation of people, usually by race
  14. 21. - join the military
Down
  1. 1. - setting free
  2. 2. - secret system set up to help enslaved people escape to the North
  3. 7. - the day that slaves in Texas found out that they were free
  4. 9. - the name of the group of states that seceded
  5. 10. - murdered for political reasons
  6. 14. - a group of something, the United States was often called this
  7. 15. - separating from the Union
  8. 17. - change or addition
  9. 19. - method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian and military targets to force a surrender