Civil War Vocabulary Quiz

to break away from a group or country

• black codes

• reconstruction

• secession

• enlist

to join the army or military

• enlist

• siege

• amendment

• impeachment

to set free

• siege

• total war

• Underground Railroad

• emancipation

the killing of a high-ranking official or leader

• assasination

• proclamation

• sharecropping

• segregation

a change, or addition, to the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• amendment

• State's rights

• Juneteenth

laws that denied African American voting rights

• segregation

• carpetbaggers

• black codes

• Juneteenth

Big farms or _______________, in the south, grew crops and had slaves.

• yards

• plantations

• land

• gardens

Another name for the Northern states.

• Union

• Confederacy

• 13 Colonies

• Canada

The ____________ ____________ was a secret system set up to help enslaved people escape.

• black codes

• Underground Railroad

• total war

• state's rights

A person who wants to end slavery.

• carpetbagger

• Unionist

• confederate

• abolitionist