Civil War Vocabulary

What is the term for someone who wants to end slavery?

• Confederate

• Unionist

• Sectionalism

• Abolitionist

What is a "Civil War"?

• a war between two super heros
• a war between groups in the same country
• a war between two states
• a war between dogs and cats

Why was sectionalism one of the reasons we went to war?

• It refers to everyone helping each other

• It refers to loyalty to a section of a nation rather than to the nation as a whole

• It divides every city into a section

• it refers to individuals who moved west

What is a slave?

• people who work for a living

• someone who volunteers to work for another person

• an owner of a plantation

• a person forced to work without pay, the treatment of people being property

What does appease mean?

• to withdraw formally form another country

• to try to keep peace, give something to soothe the other side

• to help someone when they are in trouble

• to join the militia when needed

How did they use Popular Sovereignty during the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• They decided to go to war.

• Forced the states to be slave states.

• Giving the people the right to vote and decide whether to be a slave or free state.

• Forced the states to be free states.

A compromise is?

• A way of solving a difference, giving something and getting something.

• A way to respectfully argue.

• Getting what you want.

• A way of respectfully arguing about an opinion that you truly believe in.

What was the underground railroad?

• a railroad system that helped slaves hide underground

• a system of trains that took slaves to the North

• A group of people who believed slaves should be caught and sent back to the south.

• A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North

What is a massacre?

• the act of the military taking over

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting people

• a term used when referring to the union

• a group of people forced to join the military

What is a militia?

• citizens who chose to stay home and not fight

• religious citizens who did not believe in war

• the slaves who were forced to work on the plantations

• is generally an army or some other fighting organization who can be called upon for military service during a time of need