Civil War and Reconstruction Crossword

a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.
the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War.
interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights.
a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain
restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
essentially a voting fee.
used to keep people of color -- and, sometimes, poor whites -- from voting,
statutes put in place after the Civil War by seven Southern states in an attempt to block African Americans from voting.
were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
abolished slavery in the United States
the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings
African American migrants who left the South after the Civil War to settle in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.