Across
- 2. / Relating to citizens or the state
- 5. / Of great significance or value
- 8. / Rules enacted by a government
- 9. / The act of freeing enslaved individuals
- 11. / People who were owned as property
- 14. / The supreme law of the United States
- 15. / Separation of races in public spaces
- 16. / People forced into slavery
- 17. / An official announcement, like Lincoln’s in 1863
- 18. / Movement to end slavery
Down
- 1. / Human beings, especially as a group or community
- 2. / Modifications or adjustments
- 3. / The study of past events
- 4. / Jim __ laws enforced racial segregation
- 6. / Having a favorable or beneficial effect
- 7. / Amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.
- 10. / A change or addition to the Constitution
- 11. / System of forced labor abolished after the Civil War
- 12. / Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
- 13. / Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
