The Juneteenth Story: Criss Cross

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States. Look for hints in the Word Bank. Print the puzzle or use on your tablet, phone, or computer.

 

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  • 4. Nationwide celebration of the end of slavery, and now a federal holiday.
  • 5. Another word for liberty or independence.
  • 7. In the 1860s, a conflict between the South & the North in the United States.
  • 9. Issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, that freed the people held as slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union in the Civil War.
  • 10. Held in slavery.

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  • 1. The practice of holding human beings as property.
  • 2. A ___ is a party or festive event in honor of something or someone.
  • 3. ___ are persons coming from those before or ancestors.
  • 6. The original name of Juneteenth.
  • 8. The 16th president of the United States.

Word Bank

juneteenth
slavery
descendants
enslaved
abraham lincoln
civil war
emancipation proclamation
freedom
jubilee day
celebration