Civil Rights between 1865-1965
Across
- 3. The number of the amendmend that ended slavery at the end of the Civil War.
- 4. Great Migration The mass movement of over 5 million African Americans from the rural South to the Northern, Western and Midwestern states between 1916 and 1970 (three words).
- 8. The name of the tests used to make it impossible for black people to gain the right to vote (two words).
- 9. A person who came from the North states and went to the South to prosper in the wake of the war (because it was easy to gain success in the ruined South).
- 12. The system of laws after the Civil War that restricted the rights of black people in the US (two words)
- 13. The system of laws which segregated the US systemically so that black and white people couldn't use the same public services such as schools, restaurants, bus seats, etc. (two words)
Down
- 1. Word that describes the restriction of voting rights. Another word for "voter disqualification"
- 2. A law that made it possible for someone to vote, only because their grandfather wasn't a slave during the slave era (two words).
- 5. When a group of people kills one or more people without a fair trial. Done often by the KKK.
- 6. The city in which the Bus Boycut happen in, that sparked the major Civil Rights Movement with e.g. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
- 7. A word that means "dividing" a people. "Separate but equal" was the slogan of this word during the 20th century before the Civil Right's Movement.
- 10. a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. E.g. a bank not giving out loans to people in a certain area, but effectively only targeting African Americans or Latinos.
- 11. The abbreviation of the "social club" which did racist and violent things towards black people and white allies after the Civil War.