Civil War Vocabulary Review

Withdrawal from the Union, as the Southern states did

• emancipate

• combat

• secession

• invasion

To join a branch of the armed forces without being forced to join:

• draft

• combat

• secede

• enlist

A list of taxes or duties to be charged on imported and exported goods:

• enlist

• tariff

• combat

• draft

The act of joining together or uniting, such as the United States

• Union

• Secession

• Confederate

• combat

The selection of a person for required military service:

• draft

• secede

• compromise

• tariff

Withdrawal from the Union:

• invasion

• enlist

• tariff

• secede

An attack or spreading out of something harmful:

• combat

• enlist

• devastated

• invasion

The settlement of an argument by each side giving up something:

• tariff

• compromise

• secede

• devastated

The belief that rights or powers that are independent of the federal government are reserved for the states by the US Constitution:

• federal powers

• federal rights

• states' powers

• states' rights

The physical features of a region or place:

• topography

• invasion

• combat

• secession