Reconstruction in the United States Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a racist organization that targets Republicans (black and white) and African Americans in violent ways.
  2. 6. the U.S bought this land from Russia.
  3. 7. these served as vital transportation for people and supplies on land.
  4. 8. the action of becoming larger or more expensive.
  5. 9. a formally concluded agreement between countries.
  6. 11. allows any American, including freed slaves, to put in a chain for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
  7. 14. a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America.
  8. 16. free states that opposed slavery.
  9. 22. these was a lot of this in the south for growing and cropping plants.
  10. 23. a wealth and resource of a country or region.
  11. 24. the South grew a lot of this and it was the main way people gained money.
  12. 25. the amendment that allows equal and political rights for African Americans.
  13. 26. the 17th U.S president who believed African Americans shouldn't have the same rights as white people.
  14. 27. the activities associated with the governance of a country or area.
  15. 29. mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the Confederate states.
  16. 30. the North had a lot of these and they were used for buisness.
Down
  1. 1. the highest federal court in the United States.
  2. 3. there was a lot of gold mining here and people from the east moved here.
  3. 4. the general for the Union Army and later became the 18th president of the United States.
  4. 5. people who believed African Americans were entitled the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
  5. 10. a native or inhabitant of a person of Indian decendent.
  6. 12. economic activity with the processing of raw materials and manufactures of goods in factories.
  7. 13. a form of farming when a landowner furnished all the capital and most other outputs and tenants contributed their labor.
  8. 15. the action of process of reforming an institution or practice.
  9. 17. allows citizens to have political and social freedom.
  10. 18. the lower states that supported slavery but later had to free slaves in 1863.
  11. 19. the right to act, speak, or think whatever you want without restraint.
  12. 20. an act to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services and land to displaced southeners and newly freed African Americans.
  13. 21. people who control a nation, state or community.
  14. 28. someone who comes to live permanently in a foregin country.