Across
- 5. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
- 7. Gives all black people the right to vote
- 8. A holiday celebrated in June and is a day when all black people were freed
- 9. unfair treatment of a person or group based on the basis of prejudice
- 11. Gives all black people equal civil rights
- 12. this was issued by President Abraham Lincoln and was used to free all slaves of the confederate states
- 14. having the same conditions and opportunities as everybody else
- 17. The right to act, think, or speak as one wants to without punishment
- 22. a network of people who offered shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people
- 26. Texas ______ the reconstruction amendments in order to join the union
- 27. war between Americans in the north and Americans in the south
- 29. The act of using unpaid African Americans to farm, work, etc.
- 30. the rights of citizens
Down
- 1. Frees all black people
- 2. period after the civil war where the US tried to create a free and equal society for all people
- 3. slaves were treated in the most _____ way possible
- 4. an opinion formed without careful thought or regard to the facts
- 6. the selling of human beings as slaves
- 10. a militant African American group that fought for radical means
- 13. African Americans were _____ from restaurants because of the way they look
- 15. Someone who favors the abolition of slavery
- 16. the act of setting someone apart from other people
- 18. to kill, usually by hanging
- 19. the application of the law
- 20. A secret society created by white southerners used to keep freedmen from obtaining their civil rights
- 21. a group of people that gave water, food, and shelter to the freed African Americans
- 23. the belief that one racial group is superior to another
- 24. a form of protest in which demonstrators refuse to leave until their demands are met
- 25. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
- 28. many Civil Rights _____ happened while slaves started to rebel