A Divided Nation Vocabulary

The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.

• emancipation

• sectionalism

• conscription

• secession

the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

• abolition

• secession

• conscription

• sectionalism

Withdrawal from the Union.

• Secession

• Emancipation

• Conscription

• Abolition

A type of strategy in which an army destroys its opponents ability of fighting by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources

• Total War

• Conscription

• Sectionalism

• Martyr

A Union Soldier

• Yankee

• Rebel

• Martyr

• Abolition

A Confederate soldier, so called because of the opposition to the established government.

• Rebel

• Yankee

• Martyr

• Abolition

To free from slavery

• Conscription

• Secession

• Emancipation

• Sectionalism

Enlistment required by law in the armed forces.

• Sectionalism

• Conscription

• Abolition

• Emancipation

Someone who is killed because of their beliefs

• Martyr

• Rebel

• Yankee

• Abolition

Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Antebellum

• Emancipation