Post Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. A dry, treeless region in the middle of America.
  2. 5. the rights of citizens
  3. 8. recently; not long ago
  4. 12. a rail line reaching across the nation
  5. 14. groups of workers
  6. 15. make someone suffer for doing wrong
  7. 16. great fear. Groups use terror to punish people or try to force changes.
  8. 18. killed. This word is used for the murder of a public leader.
  9. 20. a deep, painful feeling of anger
  10. 21. changes to a document
  11. 22. the series of steps that Congress took to bring the Southern states back into the country
  12. 23. a turning backward; a change to the opposite
Down
  1. 1. extreme or far to one side
  2. 2. people who come into a country to live
  3. 4. White Southerners who worked with the new state governments
  4. 6. the separation of people of different races
  5. 7. acts against the law
  6. 9. government
  7. 10. move goods or people by a vehicle, such as a train
  8. 11. Northerners who moved South after the war for financial gain. The name came from the idea that they carried all their things in a bag made from carpets.
  9. 13. farmers who raise cattle (cows, bulls and steers)
  10. 17. people who live on someone else's land and farm it for them
  11. 19. a large, strong nail