Across
- 3. - the day that slaves in Texas found out that they were free
- 6. - a barrier of troops or ships to people and supplies from moving in
- 9. - laws that denied African Americans certain rights
- 11. - military blockade designed to make a city surrender
- 13. - someone who wants to abolish, or get rid of, slavery
- 14. - official announcement
- 16. - murdered for political reasons
- 17. - system in which someone owns land and lets someone “rent” the land to farm it
- 18. - charges of wrongdoing against any elected official brought by the House of Representatives
- 20. - secret system set up to help enslaved people escape to the North
- 22. - join the military
- 23. - rights for states to make their own local laws
Down
- 1. - the name of the group of states that seceded
- 2. - separation of people, usually by race
- 4. - setting free
- 5. - separating from the Union
- 7. - when each side gives in a little to reach an agreement
- 8. - the rebuilding and healing of the country
- 10. - a group of something, the United States was often called this
- 12. - method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian and military targets to force a surrender
- 15. - newcomers to the South who carried all their belongings in cloth suitcases
- 19. - big farms
- 21. - change or addition