Across
- 2. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
- 3. the forced separation of people of different races in public places
- 5. the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
- 9. slave states that didn't join any side during the war and were in between the 2 opposing halves of the US
- 12. a political party formed to stop the spread of slavery in the west
- 13. a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
- 14. an escaped slave who joined the union army in the civil war
- 16. a law that enforced segregation in southern states
Down
- 1. a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery
- 4. the period following the civil war where the us attempted to reunite the states and rebuild the southern states
- 6. to formally withdraw from the union
- 7. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges against the wrongdoing of a public official
- 8. a system used after the civil war in which farmers worked on land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
- 10. a type of war which an army destroys its opponents ability to fight by targeting civilian, economic, and military resources
- 11. a federal outpost in charleston, california that was attacked by the confederates in 1861 which sparked the civil war
- 15. law passed in the southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans