Black History Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
  2. 7. Gives all black people the right to vote
  3. 8. A holiday celebrated in June and is a day when all black people were freed
  4. 9. unfair treatment of a person or group based on the basis of prejudice
  5. 11. Gives all black people equal civil rights
  6. 12. this was issued by President Abraham Lincoln and was used to free all slaves of the confederate states
  7. 14. having the same conditions and opportunities as everybody else
  8. 17. The right to act, think, or speak as one wants to without punishment
  9. 22. a network of people who offered shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people
  10. 26. Texas ______ the reconstruction amendments in order to join the union
  11. 27. war between Americans in the north and Americans in the south
  12. 29. The act of using unpaid African Americans to farm, work, etc.
  13. 30. the rights of citizens
Down
  1. 1. Frees all black people
  2. 2. period after the civil war where the US tried to create a free and equal society for all people
  3. 3. slaves were treated in the most _____ way possible
  4. 4. an opinion formed without careful thought or regard to the facts
  5. 6. the selling of human beings as slaves
  6. 10. a militant African American group that fought for radical means
  7. 13. African Americans were _____ from restaurants because of the way they look
  8. 15. Someone who favors the abolition of slavery
  9. 16. the act of setting someone apart from other people
  10. 18. to kill, usually by hanging
  11. 19. the application of the law
  12. 20. A secret society created by white southerners used to keep freedmen from obtaining their civil rights
  13. 21. a group of people that gave water, food, and shelter to the freed African Americans
  14. 23. the belief that one racial group is superior to another
  15. 24. a form of protest in which demonstrators refuse to leave until their demands are met
  16. 25. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
  17. 28. many Civil Rights _____ happened while slaves started to rebel