Juneteenth Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. To have fun activities to show happiness about a special event or day.
  2. 6. Being freed from slavery or bondage.
  3. 7. Being free and not controlled by someone else.
  4. 8. The group of southern states that left the United States and fought to keep slavery during the Civil War.
  5. 9. The group of northern states during the Civil War that fought to end slavery.
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  1. 1. An important announcement made to the public. The Emancipation Proclamation was a special announcement that said enslaved people were free.
  2. 2. The order given by Union General Gordon Granger in Texas on June 19, 1865, telling enslaved people they were free.
  3. 3. A holiday on June 19th that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
  4. 5. To officially end something, like a system or practice. For example, to stop slavery.
  5. 8. A war fought between people in the same country. In the United States, it was fought from 1861 to 1865 mainly over the issue of slavery.