Week 21 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. news of the end of the war reached Texas
  2. 3. a key crop in Texas during Reconstruction
  3. 7. one of the biggest challenges after the war was creating a state government that was united, not _____.
  4. 9. the period of time following the Civil War
  5. 10. Bureau this office was to help newly freed African Americans in their new lives
  6. 11. this was the primary economic activity before the civil war
  7. 12. newly emancipated citizens had the right to vote
Down
  1. 2. newly emancipated people were given citizenship with civil rights and protection
  2. 4. farmers who did not own their own land and farmed on someone else's land
  3. 5. laws that denied African Americans their basic rights
  4. 6. legally abolished all slavery in the United States
  5. 8. people who moved to Texas to escape war, disease, and famine in their homeland