Chapter 9 - Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 3. – A barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an era.
  2. 5. – A situation when groups on each side of an issue give in a little to reach an agreement.
  3. 11. – The United States; also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War.
  4. 12. – 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. – Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America.
  6. 15. – A system in which someone who owns land lets someone else “rent” the land to farm it.
  7. 17. – To murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons.
  8. 19. – The act of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a high government official by the House of Representatives.
  9. 21. – To join the military.
  10. 22. – A method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender.
Down
  1. 1. – The separation of a state from a nation.
  2. 2. – The division of groups of people, usually by race.
  3. 4. – A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.
  4. 6. – The freeing of a group from slavery.
  5. 7. – A military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender.
  6. 8. – The celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War.
  7. 9. – Northerners who went South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money.
  8. 10. – 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.
  9. 11. – Before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North.
  10. 13. – The right of each United States state to make its own local laws.
  11. 16. – A large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop.
  12. 18. – A change or improvement.
  13. 20. – An official announcement, usually by the government.