Across
- 1. news of the end of the war reached Texas
- 3. a key crop in Texas during Reconstruction
- 7. one of the biggest challenges after the war was creating a state government that was united, not _____.
- 9. the period of time following the Civil War
- 10. Bureau this office was to help newly freed African Americans in their new lives
- 11. this was the primary economic activity before the civil war
- 12. newly emancipated citizens had the right to vote
Down
- 2. newly emancipated people were given citizenship with civil rights and protection
- 4. farmers who did not own their own land and farmed on someone else's land
- 5. laws that denied African Americans their basic rights
- 6. legally abolished all slavery in the United States
- 8. people who moved to Texas to escape war, disease, and famine in their homeland