Across
- 2. State that ratified the 13th Amendment, making it official
- 4. Granted to all people born in the United States
- 5. Act passed in 1965 to enforce the 15th Amendment
- 9. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
- 11. To officially end something, like slavery
- 15. Conflict between the North and South
- 16. Loophole that allowed white people to avoid literacy tests
- 17. Legal protection ensuring fair treatment under the law
- 18. Guaranteed by the 14th Amendment for all citizens
- 20. Period of rebuilding after the Civil War
- 22. State that was admitted as a free state in the Missouri Compromise
- 25. Amendment that defined citizenship
- 26. Proclamation that freed slaves in Confederate states
- 27. Laws that restricted the rights of African-Americans
- 28. Wanted to end slavery
Down
- 1. Abolished slavery in 1777
- 3. Amendment that gave African-Americans the right to vote
- 6. Process of formally approving an amendment
- 7. State that was admitted as a slave state in the Missouri Compromise
- 8. Preventing a group from voting
- 10. Amendment that abolished slavery
- 12. Unfair test used to restrict African-American voting
- 13. Group of southern states that seceded
- 14. System where people are treated as property
- 19. Name given to formerly enslaved individuals
- 21. Method used to scare African-Americans from voting
- 23. Fee used to prevent African-Americans from voting
- 24. First state to abolish slavery