period 5

3. term used to describe the growing tension between different regions of the US.
4. strategy used by the south to gain European support during the civil war.
8. term used by the southerners to mock northerners who came to the south to gain either financially or politically during reconstruction.'
9. Organization formed during reconstruction by southerners who wanted to maintain white supremacy.
11. farmers who rented land from a landowner but usually did not suffer under the extremes of sharecroppping conditions
12. a shift in slavery in the border south to states in the deep south because of the explosion of cotton production.
15. this amendment abolished slavery.
17. nickname given the the people moving to California during the goldrush.
18. a country for roughly 9 years following their separation from Mexico.
20. called for the blockade of critical southern ports and eventual control of the mississippi river.

1. the idea that the voters should should decide key issues.
2. new method of conducting war that meant fighting and destruction would not be limited to just on the battlefield.
5. the belief that the us was superior and ultimately selected by god to settle the western lands.
6. laws adopted by southern states in the reconstruction era that greatly limited the freedom of southern blacks.
7. war sparked by the us in order to gain control over vast amounts of land in the west and south.
10. the amendment that states all people born in the United States are citizens.
13. belief system that the government should be hands off that was increasingly more popular in the 1870's following the Civil War.
14. paper money issued by the American government during and immediately after the civil war.
16. term used by southerners in the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who either supported republican reconstruction policies or gained economically as a result of this policy.
19. Democrats in congress during civil war who opposed Lincoln and the North's attack on the south.