Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary.HallsvilleJH

Focus on the interests of one's region.

• Sectionalism

• Carpetbagger

• Secede

• Conscription

A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government.

• Carpetbagger

• Reconstruction

• Secede

• Freedman

The civilian world in war time.

• Home Front

• Sectionalism

• Blockade

• Unionist

To withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to.

• Secede

• Blockade

• Sovereign

• Freedmen

The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.

• Reconstruction

• Blockade

• Conscription

• Unionist

Using naval vessels to prevent shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports.

• Blockade

• Sovereign

• Conscription

• Secede

A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.

• Scalawag

• Unionist

• Sovereign

• Sectionalism

Free from outside control; self-governing.

• Sovereign

• Secede

• Sectionalism

• Conscription

Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

• Black Codes

• Secede

• Sectionalism

• Home Front

The forced enrollment of people into military service.

• Conscription

• Unionist

• Secede

• Blockade