Unit 6: Civil War Vocabulary

the slave states between the North and the South that stayed with the union

• Border states

• Confederacy

• blockade

• Union

conflict between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

• emanicipation

• blockade

• total war

• civil war

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

• Yankee

• Union

• Confederacy

• Border states

A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields.

• civil war

• total war

• states' rights

• emancipation

goods that have been illegally imported or exported

• yankee

• rebel

• contraband

• draft

the freeing of slaves

• emancipation

• secession

• total war

• states' rights

someone who is running away or escaping

• yankee

• secession

• ironclad

• fugitive

A payment made as a reward

• fugitive

• bounty

• blockade

• casualty

Nickname for a Union soldier

• popular sovereignty

• Rebel

• Yankee

• rations

the United States

• the Union

• the Confederacy

• civil war

• popular sovereignty