Civil War Vocabulary

a person who takes the law into his own hands

• Vigilante
• Skalawag
• Carpetbagger
• Sharecropper

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

• States' Rights
• Reconstruction
• Secede
• abolitionist

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

What vocab word does this image represent?

• blockade
• state's rights
• homefront
• secede

What is Confederacy?

• Coalition or union of people or groups
• to put an end to
• one who wants to abolish slavery
• the act of separting