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, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power.
loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
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.
Begun in the 1890s as a legal way to keep African Americans from voting in southern states, poll taxes were essentially a voting fee. Eligible voters were required to pay their poll tax before they could cast a ballot.
were administered to prospective voters, and this had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans and others with diminished access to education
A half-dozen states passed laws 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.
the systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people
abolished slavery
is the practice whereby a swarm- generally a few dozen of a few hundred people - goes rogue so as to harm and murder a man blamed for some wrongdoing
African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the Reconstruction era