Civil War 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
an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole, lack of interest with local interests
the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the union in 1860, leading to the civil war
a civil rights organization in the United States formed in 1909 with the goal of advancing justice for African Americans
white southerners who moved from the south to collaborate with northern Republicans to have greater political opportunities
Northerners who moved to the South after the war to make profit from the Reconstruction
restrictions placed on Freedmen to prevent them from success
a tax placed on African American voters (black code)
tests given to African Americans to determine whether they could vote or not (black code)
a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices
discriminatory laws that practiced segregation against Black people after the Reconstruction
abolished slavery forever and everywhere, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
to kill someone (especially by hanging) for a crime with or without a legal trial
name given to African Americans who migrated along the Mississippi River to Kansas following the civil war