Civil War and Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle

a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write.
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States.
forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories
a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.
kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period
restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual, without reference to income or resources.