🧩 Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle (Chapter 15)

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Across
  1. 4. The act of freeing enslaved people after the Civil War
  2. 7. Government agency that helped freed people with education and jobs
  3. 8. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
  4. 11. Right of African American men to vote
  5. 13. Laws in the South restricting rights of freed African Americans
  6. 14. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
  7. 15. Law declaring all U.S.-born people citizens
Down
  1. 1. – Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
  2. 2. The period of rebuilding after the Civil War
  3. 3. Amendment banning slavery in the U.S.
  4. 5. Laws enforcing racial segregation after Reconstruction
  5. 6. – Northerners who moved South for political/economic opportunities
  6. 9. Owning land as a sign of independence after slavery
  7. 10. Klux Klan – Violent group opposing Black rights
  8. 12. System where farmers worked land and paid with crops