Civil Rights Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. state governments cannot pass laws that limit the rights of citizens
  2. 4. making someone pay money for the right to vote
  3. 6. lowered the voting age to 18 years old
  4. 10. ended slavery in the US
  5. 11. ____________________ Amendment was proposed to further protect the rights of women but it did not pass.
  6. 13. Civil Rights Act of 1964 said employers could not discriminate based on __________________
  7. 14. this state used trick questions like "How many seeds are in a watermelon?"
  8. 15. the argument used for certain states to set their own laws for elections and voting
  9. 16. a common way to protest state laws in the 1950s and 1960s
  10. 17. who is on my new calendar?
  11. 19. the right to vote
Down
  1. 1. protected the right to vote for African American males
  2. 2. ___________ Rights Act of 1965 made racial discrimination illegal in voting laws
  3. 3. gave women the right to vote
  4. 5. "How many _______ are on a bar of soap?" was one of the trick questions used in Mississippi
  5. 7. some states denied African Americans the right to vote by making it hard for them to "properly ___________"
  6. 8. Civil Rights Act of 1968 made racial or gender discrimination illegal in ______________
  7. 9. banned poll taxes
  8. 12. no woman has ever been elected US ___________
  9. 18. this state used a 68 question literacy test to make it harder for African Americans to vote