APUSH Period 5 Terms

8. nickname for a northerner who left the North to live in the South during Reconstruction
11. nickname for people who sought out gold in California
14. Northern Democrats who demanded a peace settlement with the Confederacy.
15. a period of conflicts in Kansas over the issue of slavery
17. an act by Abraham Lincoln that required at least 10% of voters to consent to an oath of loyality to the United States
18. act allowing for the construction of a transcontinental railway across the US
20. 17th president of the United States who oversaw the Reconstruction period.

1. this prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or servitude
2. System where a freed slave is allowed to grow crops on a white man's land in exchange for the white man receiving a share of all crops grown.
3. general of the Union president and the 18th president of the United States
4. this granted all freed slaves citizenship in the US
5. authorized the use of federal troops to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments
6. the period where the South was being rebuilt in the aftermath of the Civil War
7. it banned slavery and repealed the 3/5ths clause
9. a series of rules that regulated the action of freed slaves in the South
10. former slaves who left their homes to live in Kansas
12. 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
13. general of the Confederate who fought in the Mexican American War
16. site of the first battle in the Civil War
19. The bloodiest single day Civil War battle fought on September 17, 1862