Civil War Vocabulary

The act of withdrawing from a political body; the South withdrew from the United States over disagreements about slavery

• Secession

• Disaffiliation

• Civil Disobedience

• Political Blockading

 The name given to the Southern states who withdrew from the United States

• Confederacy
• Yankees
• Union
• Southern Opposition Committee 

Change made to the Constitution giving African American men the right to vote

• 15th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 27th Amendment
• 10th Amendment

An agreement where US military troops were removed from the South after the election of 1877; Once troops were removed African American voting rights were no longer protected in the South

• Compromise of 1877
• 15th Amendment
• Treaty of Paris
• Strategic Defense Initiative 

an organization designed to help freed slaves during the Reconstruction Era; provided food, medical aid, legal assistance and the establishment of schools for freed slaves

• Freedmen's Bureau 
• Slavery Regulation Board
• Reconstruction
• Emancipation Proclamation 

A hate group established in the South to intimidate freed slaves and to keep them from exercising their legal rights

• Klu Klux Klan
• Vigilante Knights
• Knights Kickbox Klan
• Kansas Knights Klan

A change to the Constitution that abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• 15th Amendment

A tenant is given a piece of land to farm and must pay the owner an agreed upon percentage of the crops for the use of the land; this was used as a legal way to re-enslave African Americans after gaining their freedom

• sharecropping
• indentured servants
• slavery
• budget gardening

An executive order given by President Lincoln to abolish slavery

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Cooper Union Proclamation

An effort from 1865-1877 to rebuild the South after the Civil War; many of the gains made by African Americans during this time were reversed by white supremacists 

• Reconstruction
• Abolition
• Fortification
• Ratification