The Reconstruction Era

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Across
  1. 5. enforcing segregation in south after the civil war
  2. 6. right granted by the constitution to give people equal treatment
  3. 7. agency established at the end of the Civil War to help newly freed African Americans
  4. 8. change to constitution ratified in 1878 declaring states can't deny anyone's right to votes becasue of race, color, or once a slave
Down
  1. 1. ratified in 1865 abolishing slavery in the U.S.
  2. 2. laws passed in 1965 and 1866 to limit rights of African Americans
  3. 3. change to constitution ratified in 1868 giving citizenship to anyone born in U.S.
  4. 4. Time after Civil War when southern states were brought back into the union