Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. war the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law
  2. 4. the period of time after the Civil War in which the southern stated were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
  3. 7. ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law
  4. 8. an agency established by congress at the end of the civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
Down
  1. 1. a change to the Constitution ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone to the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave
  2. 3. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former confederate states to limit the rights of African Americans
  3. 5. 1865, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
  4. 6. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the south after the civil ear