Civil War vocabulary

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

• States' Rights

• Reconstruction

• Secede

• abolitionist

This refers to the Southern states that left the Union during the Civil War. All together there were 11 states: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• United States

Who was president of the Confederate States of America?

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

The capital of the Confederate states of America during the Civil War was:

• Charleston

• Washington, D.C.

• Richmond

• Philadelphia

Term referring to the United States during the 1800’s. Also another word for the North in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• South

• Grey

Even though these were states where slavery was legal, they did not secede and join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

Where were the opening shots of the Civil War fired?  At the Battle of . . . 

• Bull Run
• Shiloh
• Fort Sumter
• Gettysburg

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

• Blockade

• Embargo

• Tariff

• Sectionalism

Given by Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It states all slaves held in the South were now free and able to join the North to fight in the Civil War.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Abolitionist

Metal-covered steam-driven warships first introduced during the Civil War

• Metalclad warship

• Steeclad warship

• Ironclad warship

• Destroyers