Civil Rights between 1865 and 1965

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  1. 5. A law that made it possible for someone to vote, only because their grandfather wasn't a slave during the slave era (two words).
  2. 6. The number of the amendment that ended slavery at the end of the Civil War.
  3. 7. The system of laws after the Civil War that restricted the rights of black people in the US (two words)
  4. 9. The name of the tests used to make it impossible for black people to gain the right to vote (two words).
  5. 12. The abbreviation of the "social club" which did racist and violent things towards black people and white allies after the Civil War.
  6. 13. A discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighbourhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. E.g. a bank not giving out loans to people in a certain area, but effectively only targeting African Americans or Latinos.
  7. 14. A person who came from the North states and went to the South to prosper in the wake of the war (because it was easy to gain success in the ruined South).
  8. 15. The city in which the Bus Boycott happened which sparked the major Civil Rights Movement with e.g. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
Down
  1. 1. Word that describes the restriction of voting rights. Another word for "voter disqualification"
  2. 2. The first name of the man who held the "I have a dream" speech
  3. 3. The mass movement of over 5 million African Americans from the rural South to the Northern, Western and Midwestern states between 1916 and 1970 (three words).
  4. 4. A word that means "dividing" a people. "Separate but equal" was the slogan of this word during the 20th century before the Civil Rights Movement.
  5. 8. The surname of the woman who refused to move from her seat for a white man, officially starting the Civil Rights Movement
  6. 10. When a group of people kills one or more people without a fair trial. Done often by the KKK.
  7. 11. The system of laws which segregated the US systemically so that black and white people couldn't use the same public services such as schools, restaurants, bus seats, etc. (two words)