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What is a white man who acted as a manager of the slaves and farming operations of a plantation?
Overseer
What is securing food by stripping the countryside?
forge
What is a set of big guns used for attack or defense?
Batteries
What is a large agricultural estate?
Plantation
What is the name given to former slaves?
Freedmen
What is a pardon granted to a large group of individuals?
Amnesty
What were state laws regulating slavery?
Black Codes
What is a camp with little shelter?
Bivouac
What is a theory stating that all men, everywhere, are endowed by God and nature with the rights of life, liberty, and property?
Universal suffrage (or Natural rights)
What is a set of laws that governed and regulated the lives of freedmen in Mississippi after the Civil War?
Black Codes
What is 640 acres; there are 36 sections in a township.
Section
What was the 6th Congressional District, formed after the Revolution of 1875 to minimize the impact of blacks in congressional elections?
Shoestring District
What was the constitution required by the Reconstruction Acts in order for Mississippi to be readmitted to the Union?
Reconstruction Constitution
What was President Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, proclamation that freed all slaves in those states in rebellion against the US?
Emancipation Proclamation
What is a tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it?
Siege
What is a labor system that established, by law and custom, that African American slaves were the personal property of their owners and could be bought, sold, traded, and inherited?
Slavery
What was the principle that the rights of individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government?
States' rights
Who were Northerners who remained in the South or moved to the South after the Civil War?
Carpetbaggers
What law did the Mississippi Convention adopt on January 9, 1861, to secede from the Union?
Ordinance of Secession
What was the Democratic party strategy to win victory in the MS elections of 1875?
Mississippi Plan
What was the Union Civil War cavalry 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?
Grierson's Raid