The Beetle That Shook the South

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Across
  1. 2. the region in the United States where cotton was grown
  2. 5. A fabric made from a plant that grows in the southern states
  3. 6. A plant grown by farmers to sell or use
  4. 8. The tiny insect that destroyed cotton crops
  5. 9. Farmers who rented land and paid with part of their crops
  6. 10. Scientists were able to get ___ ___ ___ of the boll weevils.
Down
  1. 1. The direction many Black southerners moved to find better lives
  2. 3. People who grow plants and raise animals for food
  3. 4. What the boll weevils did to the cotton plants
  4. 7. The state of being poor and having little money