Civil War Vocabulary

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After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, many Southern states voted to _________ from the United States.

• Blockade

• Secede

• Conscription

• Abolitionist

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Most Southern states were _________, while Northern states did not support slavery.

• proslavery

• allegiance

• ordinance

• abolitionist

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What special purpose draws those ____________ states together?

• secede

• conscription

• confederate

• Emancipation Proclamation

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Texas broke its ___________ to the United States and withdrew from the Union.

• Oordinance

• allegiance

• confederate

• secede

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To fill the army's need for more soldiers, the Confederate Congress had to pass laws enacting ___________.

• allegiance.

• blockade.

• proslavery.

• conscription.

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The Union __________ of Texas ports broke an important link in the movement of supplies.

• ordinance

• conscription

• blockade

• abolitionist

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Texans passed an __________ in order to free the state of its loyalty to the Union.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• allegiance

• proslavery

• ordinance

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Many Northerns joined the Republican Party because it was ___________.

• antislavery

• blockade

• proslavery

• confederate

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People who wanted to stop slavery in the United States were called ______________

• confederate

• abolitionist

• ordinance

• conscription

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President Lincoln issued the ____________ to free slaves in the Confederate states

• conscription

• blockade

• allegiance

• Emancipation Proclamation