Across
- 4. The act of freeing enslaved people after the Civil War
- 7. Government agency that helped freed people with education and jobs
- 8. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
- 11. Right of African American men to vote
- 13. Laws in the South restricting rights of freed African Americans
- 14. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
- 15. Law declaring all U.S.-born people citizens
Down
- 1. – Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
- 2. The period of rebuilding after the Civil War
- 3. Amendment banning slavery in the U.S.
- 5. Laws enforcing racial segregation after Reconstruction
- 6. – Northerners who moved South for political/economic opportunities
- 9. Owning land as a sign of independence after slavery
- 10. Klux Klan – Violent group opposing Black rights
- 12. System where farmers worked land and paid with crops