Voting Rights

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Across
  1. 3. Formerly enslaved people gaining new rights
  2. 11. Pardons given to former Confederates
  3. 12. Constitutional guarantee under the 14th Amendment
  4. 15. Federal laws protecting African American voting rights
  5. 18. Southern white supporter of Reconstruction
  6. 19. Official vote cast in an election
  7. 20. Rights guaranteed to all citizens
Down
  1. 1. To take away someone’s voting rights
  2. 2. Period of rebuilding the South and expanding rights
  3. 4. The right to vote
  4. 5. Process required before voting
  5. 6. Granted African American men the right to vote
  6. 7. Allowed voting only if ancestors had voted
  7. 8. System of racial separation limiting freedoms
  8. 9. Laws restricting African American rights after the war
  9. 10. Fee used to block many African Americans from voting
  10. 13. Legal membership granting rights and duties
  11. 14. Reading requirement used to prevent Black voters
  12. 16. Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction
  13. 17. Group that used violence to suppress Black voting