Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary terms 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.
an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political
established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the
a pejorative term for 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. ... Scalawags came from various segments of Southern
a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War. ... For them the South was a kind of new frontier and a land of
were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed
major source of government funding among the colonies which formed the United
a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and
statutes put in place after the Civil War by seven Southern states in an attempt to block African Americans from
a number of laws requiring racial segregation in the United
passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864; by the House on January 31, 1865; and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865—abolished slavery “within the United States, or any place subject to their
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. klu klux
African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the Reconstruction
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