Slavery- Reconstrution Era

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Across
  1. 3. The ship that brought 20 enslaved Africans to Jamestown in 1619.
  2. 6. The system of forced labor in which Africans were brought to the Americas.
  3. 7. The South's main crop that relied heavily on enslaved labor, especially in the 1800s.
  4. 9. U.S. amendment granting citizenship and equal civil rights to African Americans after the Civil War.
  5. 12. The U.S. president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
  6. 13. The period following the Civil War aimed at reintegrating the Southern states and freed African Americans.
  7. 14. The U.S. amendment that formally ended slavery in 1865.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. amendment granting African American men the right to vote.
  2. 2. The violent group that sought to restore white supremacy in the South during Reconstruction.
  3. 4. The Supreme Court decision in 1857 that upheld slavery and denied African Americans citizenship.
  4. 5. The act of seceding or breaking away from the Union, which occurred in 1860-61 by 11 Southern states.
  5. 8. The Northern political party formed in the 1850s in opposition to the expansion of slavery.
  6. 9. The year the Civil War ended with the Confederacy’s surrender.
  7. 10. Act The act passed in 1867 to reorganize the South during Reconstruction.
  8. 11. The legal status of African Americans in the South before the Civil War.