Independent, subject to no higher authority or gov't
What is sovereign
100
The period in the south before the civil war
What is Antebellum
200
Slave holding states that bordered the frees
What is Border states
200
To file charges to remove a politician from office
What is impeach
200
Belief that American states have certain rights under the tenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution that the national gov't cannot violate
What is states rights
200
Name given to the North during the civil war
What is Confederacy
300
Illegal killing usually by handing by violent mobs
What is Lynching
300
A frontier area belonging to the United States but yet organized into a state
What is territory
300
Federal Reconstruction Agency which issued food, clothing fuel and other supplies to black freedom and some needy white
What is freedom's bureau
300
The period after the Civil War when federal govt took control of the former Confederate states
What is Reconstruction
400
Laws passed by southern legislatures after the civil war to limit the political and civil rights of former slaves
What is Black codes
400
A system of tenant works someone else's land for share of crop
What is sharecopper
400
The action of southern states, in 1861, of withdrawing from the Union
What is secession
400
A war of peace
What is Civil War
500
The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of _________ activity, including bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South.
What is Ku Klux Klan
500
A poor farmer who did not own land and had to live and work the land of others