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