Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz Review- Civil War and Reconstruction

Blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out

• blockade

• emancipation

• martial law

• secede

Each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of others

• principles

• popular sovereignty

• checks and balances

• constitution

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

• reconstruction

• confederacy

• sectionalism

• federalism

A tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop

• checks and balances

• republicanism

• sharecropper

• confederacy

Laws by a military authority

• martial law

• sectionalism

• individual rights

• emancipation

Political system in which power is shared between a national government and state governments

• separation of powers

• popular sovereignty

• secede

• federalism

Generally refers to the rebuilding of the South following the Civil War

• secede

• reconstruction

• blockade

• emancipation

Powers and responsibilities are divided among the branches of government

• constitution

• martial law

• separation of powers

• confederacy

The act of giving some freedom (freeing slaves after the Civil War)

• emancipation

• secede

• blockade

• republicanism

To withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union

• checks and balances

• sharecropper

• constitution

• secede