Civil War Vocabulary Quiz

A person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it right away

• draft
• rural
• abolitionist
• Abraham Lincoln

A military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going in and out of an area

• blockade
• urban plot
• prohibit
• best plan ever

A settlement of differences between two or more sides reached by each side giving up some of what it wanted

• ratify
• The Neill/Schenk Strategy
• compromise
• New Deal

A system of selecting individuals from a group for manditory military service

• draft or conscription

• wind

• selection

• strategy

to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation

• strategy
• when you say "Peace out!"
• secede
• blockade

the killing of a high-ranking official or leader

• assasination

• proclamation

• sharecropping

• segregation

a change, or addition, to the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• amendment

• State's rights

• Juneteenth

Another name for the Northern states.

• Union

• Confederacy

• 13 Colonies

• Canada

A method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender.

• Civil War

• Total War

• Terrorism

• Revolution

Money printed for the North

• greenback
• total war
• entrench
• export