MS Studies - Chapter 6 Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 5. a northerner who remained in the South or moved to the South after the Civil War
  2. 7. a secret organization with special handshakes, passwords, and disguises that used violence and intimidation against freedmen after the Civil War
  3. 8. pardon granted to a large group of individuals
  4. 10. a constitution required by the Reconstruction Acts in order for Mississippi to be readmitted to the union; it had to give blacks civil rights and equal protection under the law
  5. 11. to secure food by stripping the countryside
  6. 12. Democratic leaders who planned and directed the Revolution of 1875
  7. 14. the use of naval forces to isolate a seaport and prevent ships from entering or leaving
  8. 15. a Democratic Party strategy to win victory in the Mississippi elections of 1875
  9. 16. to take away the right to vote from a person or group
  10. 18. the name given to former slaves
  11. 19. a set of laws that governed and regulated the lives of freedmen in Mississippi after the Civil War
  12. 20. persons killed, wounded, or missing in battle
  13. 21. the Sixth Congressional District, formed after the Revolution of 1875 to minimize the impact of blacks in congressional elections
Down
  1. 1. the time of rebuilding the South and restoring southern states to the Union after the Civil War
  2. 2. President Abraham Lincoln’s January 1, 1863, proclamation that freed all slaves in those states in rebellion against the U.S.A.
  3. 3. a set of big guns used for attack or defense
  4. 4. to camp with little shelter
  5. 6. a Union Civil War calvary raid that Colonel Benjamin Grierson conducted from La Grange, Tennessee, through Mississippi, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to cause Confederate General Pemberton to divert part of his army and to destroy railroad lines that connected Vicksburg with the eastern part of the Confederacy
  6. 9. a white Mississippian (or other southerner) who joined the Republican Party and supported the rights of citizenship for blacks during Reconstruction
  7. 13. a formal charge brought against an elected official
  8. 17. a tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it