Civil War Vocabulary

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To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

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Secede

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A nation at war with itself.

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Civil War

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Civilian world during a war.

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Homefront

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A document signed by President Lincoln during the Civil War declaring that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

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Blockade

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What is the term for someone who wants to end slavery?

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Abolitionist

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The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.

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States' Rights

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The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.

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Reconstruction

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A farm worker who works someone else's land and pays to use it by giving the landowner a share of the crops (or profit) grown.

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Sharecropper

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A person who supported the Union during the Civil War (and usually lived in the South).

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Unionist