Chapter 9 - Civil War and Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. a distinctive, particular, or characteristic of acting or way of moving.
  2. 4. the name of the plan by President Lincoln to help rebuild and heal the country after the Civil War.
  3. 5. Northern people who moved South to start businesses after the Civil War.
  4. 10. find out something is difficult or a problem.
  5. 11. codes 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.
  6. 15. beaten or vanquished.
  7. 16. a person who supported the movement to end slavery.
  8. 17. the name of a celebration for the day enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of the Emancipation Proclamation.
  9. 18. to get or acquire.
  10. 19. a barrier of troops or ships to keep to keep people and supplies from moving in or out of an area.
  11. 20. to formally stop being part of something.
  12. 21. a military blockade designed to make a city surrender.
  13. 22. a change or addition, especially to the U.S. Constitution
  14. 24. Railroad a secret organization that helped escaped enslaved African Americans to get to the North or to Canada.
  15. 25. to make people obey a law or rule.
  16. 27. to join the military.
  17. 30. the setting free of enslaved Africans.
Down
  1. 1. a thought-out plan to accomplish a goal over a long time.
  2. 2. a system in which someone who owns land rents the land to others in exchange for some of the crops raised on the land.
  3. 3. to murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons.
  4. 6. another name for the United States, especially the northern states during the Civil War.
  5. 7. the separation of groups of people, usually by race.
  6. 8. a large farm on which a single crop is usually grown.
  7. 9. a collection of items put out so that people can see them.
  8. 10. an official announcement, usually by the government.
  9. 12. people on both sides of an issue giving up something to reach an agreement.
  10. 13. the process by which charges of wrongdoing are brought against an elected offical.
  11. 14. having the power to horrify; frightening or shocking.
  12. 20. rights the right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws.
  13. 23. to design or invent something.
  14. 26. another name for the Confederate States of America, thee southern states during the U.S. Civil War.
  15. 28. war a method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender.
  16. 29. in agreement