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 state rights
200
Name given to the southern states during the Civil War
What is Confederacy
300
Illegal killing usually by handling by violent mobs
What is lynching
300
A frontier area belonging to the United States but not 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 whites
What is freedom's bureau
300
The period after the civil war when federal gov't took control of the former confederate states in an attempt to change from them before readmitting them t the union
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 farming in which the tenant works someone else's land for share of the crop
What is sharecopper
400
The action of southern states, in 1860 and 1861, of withdrawn from the Union
What is Session
500
factions of the secret fraternal organization have used acts of terrorism—including murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombing—to oppose the granting of civil rights to African Americans.
What is Ku Klux Klan
500
A poor farmer who did not own land and had to live on and work the land of others, either for wages or a share of the crop they produced
What is tenant farmer
500
The document issued by Pres. Abe Lincoln that stated as of January 1, 1863 all slaves in the Confederacy were considered "forever free"