S.S. Vocabulary-1st Nine Weeks Crossword
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1) under these laws, blacks could not sit with whites on trains or stay in certain2) Sharecroppers both black and white, rented land from landowners. They paid for their rent with a portion of their crops. Sharecroppers sold the rest of their crop for food, clothing, and farming equipment3) Thousands of African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains to start new lives4) new settlers to a region5) gave all male citizens the right to vote7) a railroad across the continent that linked the East and the West9) abolished slavery in the United States, took effect on December 18, 185610) laws that denied African American men the right to vote or act as jurors in a trial. Black people also could not own guns, take certain jobs, or own land. African Americans out of work might be fined or arrested11) established to help the 4 million freedmen, or former slaves after the war15) the use of new ideas to make tools that improved people’s lives. On the Great Plains, such technology included steel plow, windmills, barbed wire and dry farming17) Great Plains farmers were called this because they had to bust through the hard soil for “sod†(the top layer of the ground with grass) |
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6) This is the place where on May 10, 1869 the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met. A special golden railroad spike was made to symbolize the success of the project8) a law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains. It said a man over the age of 21, or a woman who was head of a family, for a small fee you could get 160 acres of land12) the settlers (people) who claimed land through the Homestead Act13) the rebuilding and healing of the country after a war14) gave African Americans citizenship and said that no state could deny the equal protection of the law to all citizens16) a vast region of dry grassland in the middle of the country; few trees, harsh weather, and low rainfall18) separation of blacks and whites19) the murder of a political or government leader20) the bringing of charges of wrongdoing |
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