Social Studies Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. extreme shortage of food
  2. 3. African American religious folk song
  3. 6. white farmers who rented or worked someone else's land
  4. 7. regular expenses which remained about the same every year
  5. 8. states including Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina
  6. 10. clipped travel time in half
  7. 11. machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
  8. 12. metal machine which cut through the hard packed sod of the prairies
  9. 13. unfair treatment of a group
  10. 16. device which used electric signals to transmit messages
  11. 17. money/cash
  12. 18. white southerners who lived in crude cabins in the woods and fended for themselves
  13. 19. an unfair opinion not based on facts
Down
  1. 1. states including Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
  2. 4. organization of workers with the same trade or skill
  3. 5. sped up the harvesting of wheat
  4. 9. white farmers who owned land but not slaves
  5. 14. laws in the Southern states to control the slaves
  6. 15. a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet