Across
- 1. an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed Black Americans
- 3. commonly described as
- 6. a change to the Constitution, abolished slavery in the US
- 7. States cannot deny a vote because of race or color or status.
- 8. Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
- 10. Considered less than
- 12. to find a solution for
- 13. a rebellion of enslaved people led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831
- 15. a secret network of free Black people and White people who helped thousands of people escape slavery and go to states without slavery and Canada
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- 2. The period after the Civil War in which the Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery
- 4. the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
- 5. Resulting from improvements in knowledge, equipment, or methods.
- 9. Grants citizenship to anyone born in the US, and has equality under the protection of the law.
- 11. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people
- 14. laws enforcing segregation after the Civil War in the South
