13th/14th Amendment Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. The amendment allows forced labor only as a ___ for a crime.
  2. 5. "Separate educational facilities are ______ unequal."
  3. 8. The American conflict that ended just months before the amendment was ratified.
  4. 9. The type of Supreme Court vote (9–0) that decided the Brown case.
  5. 11. The American conflict that ended just months before the amendment was ratified.
  6. 12. The clause preventing states from denying "life, liberty, or property" without legal proceedings.
  7. 14. "Neither slavery nor ___ servitude... shall exist within the United States."
  8. 18. The era following the Civil War when the 14th Amendment was ratified.
  9. 21. The Chief Justice who wrote the landmark Brown v. Board opinion.
  10. 22. The clause ensuring laws apply equally to all people.
Down
  1. 1. The movement dedicated to ending slavery that achieved its main goal with this amendment.
  2. 2. The last name of the defendant in the landmark Dred Scott v. ___ case.
  3. 3. Action the 14th Amendment took against the Dred Scott decision / The clause that granted rights to anyone born or naturalized in the US.
  4. 6. The NAACP chief counsel who successfully argued the Brown v. Board case.
  5. 7. First name of the young schoolgirl at the center of the Brown v. Board case.
  6. 10. The president who aggressively pushed for the amendment's passage before his assassination.
  7. 13. The type of leasing system that exploited the amendment's prison loophole.
  8. 15. The legal classification given to enslaved people in the Dred Scott ruling.
  9. 16. "All persons ___ or naturalized in the United States...".
  10. 17. The Kansas city where the Brown v. Board lawsuit originated.
  11. 19. The separation of students based on race, ruled unconstitutional.
  12. 20. The Supreme Court case overturned by the 14th Amendment.