Civil War Vocabulary

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

• States' Rights
• Reconstruction
• Secede
• abolitionist

A nation at war with itself.

• Homefront
• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Revolutionary War

Civilian world during a war.

• Home world
• Civilian world
• Civilian life
• Homefront

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

• The Embargo Act
• The Reconstruction Act
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Articles of Confederation

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

• Blockade
• Embargo
• Tariff
• Sectionalism

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

• Sharecropper
• Unionist
• Secessionist
• Abolitionist

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

• Blockade
• Confederation
• States' Rights
• Republicanism

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

• Restoration
• Reconstruction
• Reclamation
• Reformation

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.

• Sharecropper
• Unionist
• Farmer
• Indentured Servant

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

• Abolitionist
• Secessionist
• Unionist
• Reformist