Civil War and Reconstruction Crossword

the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole
withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860-1861 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
America's oldest and largest civil right organization formed in 1909 by New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country
term for a white southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction, or who joined in the support of the Republican Party
term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period
law governing the conduct of African Americans
tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual without reference to income or resources
tests a person's literacy skills; administered to prospective voters between the 1850s and 1960s, which disenfranchised African Americans and others with diminished access to education
laws passed in a half-dozen states that made men eligible to vote if they had been able to vote before African-Americans were given the franchise, or if they were the lineal descendants of voters back then.
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
passed by Congress in 1865 and abolished slavery in the United States
form of violence in which a mob kills someone, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial
African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the Reconstruction era