Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 2. of less importance, value, or quality
  2. 5. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
  3. 8. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law
  4. 10. to put up with
  5. 11. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
Down
  1. 1. the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
  2. 3. laws passed to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
  3. 4. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens
  4. 6. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States
  5. 7. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave
  6. 9. to find a solution for