Ch 4 American History

2. a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planters land in return for a share of the crop
4. the date the Confederates forces surrender at Vicksburg
7. a veto taking place when Congress adjourns with 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it
10. a negative term for a Southern white who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War
11. first and only Confederate president
15. a radical republican
18. known as the "KKK"
20. union war plan by Winfield Scott
22. capital of Virginia
24. tax paid to the state, federal, and local government based on income earned over the past year
25. a law to disqualify African Americans voters by allowing the vote only to men whose fathers and grandfathers had vote before 1866 and 1867

1. a reading and writing test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans form voting
3. a sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
5. abolished slavery
6. "separate, but not equal"
8. he created the cotton gin
9. Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware
12. warships covered with protective iron plates
13. laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
14. the city under siege for 9 months
16. 16th president; president during the Civil War
17. a government in which the people rule by their own consent
19. a negative term for Northern who moved to the South after the Civil War
20. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
21. states created laws to segregate blacks from whites in the South, violence against blacks was widespread
23. photographer during the Civil War