Across
- 3. A dry, treeless region in the middle of America.
- 5. the rights of citizens
- 8. recently; not long ago
- 12. a rail line reaching across the nation
- 14. groups of workers
- 15. make someone suffer for doing wrong
- 16. great fear. Groups use terror to punish people or try to force changes.
- 18. killed. This word is used for the murder of a public leader.
- 20. a deep, painful feeling of anger
- 21. changes to a document
- 22. the series of steps that Congress took to bring the Southern states back into the country
- 23. a turning backward; a change to the opposite
Down
- 1. extreme or far to one side
- 2. people who come into a country to live
- 4. White Southerners who worked with the new state governments
- 6. the separation of people of different races
- 7. acts against the law
- 9. government
- 10. move goods or people by a vehicle, such as a train
- 11. Northerners who moved South after the war for financial gain. The name came from the idea that they carried all their things in a bag made from carpets.
- 13. farmers who raise cattle (cows, bulls and steers)
- 17. people who live on someone else's land and farm it for them
- 19. a large, strong nail