Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary

An action to stop transportation of goods into or out of an area; this strategy was especially harmful for the south and helped the north

• Blockade

• Draft

• Vigilante

• Secede

A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military

• blockage

• secede

• vigilante

• draft

person who takes the law into their own hands; a person who takes control or punishes criminals without authority to do so

• Rebels

• Yankees

• Vigilante

• Sharecropper

withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• secede

• Martial Law

• Juneteenth

nickname given to the Confederate soldiers

• Rebels

• Yankees

• Vigilante

• Sharecropper

nickname given to the Union soldiers

• Rebels

• Yankees

• Vigilante

• Sharecropper

Proclamation given by Lincoln that freed all slaves.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• secede

• Martial Law

• Juneteenth

A celebration in Texas when the slaves got word of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was read by Granger in Galveston on June 19, 1865 - 2 years after Lincoln made it.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• secede

• Martial Law

• Juneteenth

Part of a state or other area marked off for a special purpose

• Martial Law

• Freedman's Bureau

• District

• Draft

rule by an army instead of the usual civil authorities.

• Martial Law

• Freedman's Bureau

• District

• Draft