Scorched Earth Policy		To leave the Union.
Spoils System		Extreme allegiance to one's own local interests.
Black Codes		People who escaped from slavery but were running from the law.
Emancipation		Roads that required travelers to pay tolls.
Temperance		Pardon to Confederates who would sign an oath of loyalty to Union.
Tariffs		Daily pay.
Textiles		Grant's policy to burn everything in sight to win war.
Flatboats		Laws that severely restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans.
Sharecropping		Murder of a person in ruthless mob attacks.
Fugitives		A system in which a wealthy patron would give land to a farmer in exchange for a portion of the crop.
Amnesty		Unique musical form combining African music styles with the text of Protestant hymns
Carpetbaggers		Formal withdrawl from a nation.
Wages		Anti-drinking movement.
Gospel Tradition		Cloth and fabric.
Sectionalism		Rewarding supporters with government positions.
Frontier		Square-ended boats used to transport goods on waterways.
Nullification		Northerners who arrived in South with "only what they could stuff in their luggage".
Lynching		A state's right to reject any law it felt had violated the Constitution.
Secede		Redividing voting districts to decrease African American representation.
Turnpikes		Movement to end slavery.
Secession		Fees on imported goods.
Gerrymandering		The shifting zone where colonist lands met Native American lands.
Abolitionism		Liberation from slavery.