Fun Friday Juneteenth

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Across
  1. 6. The last Confederate state where enslaved people received news of their freedom (5 letters)
  2. 7. Union General Gordon ___ read General Orders No. 3 in Galveston (7 letters)
  3. 8. Lincoln's proclamation that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free (12 letters)
  4. 9. Another name for Juneteenth: ___ Day (7 letters)
  5. 10. President ___ signed Juneteenth into a federal holiday on June 17, 2021 (5 letters)
Down
  1. 1. Texas city where freedom was announced in 1865 (9 letters)
  2. 2. The post-Civil War era of rebuilding and change, 1865–1877 (14 letters)
  3. 3. The ___ Amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the U.S. (10 letters)
  4. 4. The holiday celebrated on June 19th (10 letters)
  5. 5. What Juneteenth ultimately celebrates — the opposite of enslavement (7 letters)