Civil War Vocabulary

A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.

• Union

• State's Rights

• Segregation

• Abolitionist

Gave all males the right to vote regardless of race

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• State's Rights

Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America.

• State's rights

• Confederacy

• Reconstruction

• Union

A system is which someone who owns land lets someone else "rent" the land to farm it.

• Sharecropping

• Secession

• Underground Railroad

• Abolitionist

The division of groups of people, usually by race.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Segregation

• Secession

Guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens; granted citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the US.

• 14th Amendment

• State's Rights

• 13th Amendment

• Reconstruction

The right of each of United States to make it's own local laws.

• Sharecropping

• Union

• State's Rights

• Reconstruction

The United States; also the Northern States, that remained part of the nation and fought against the confederacy in the Civil War.

• Secession

• Union

• Confederacy

• Underground Railroad

Before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North.

• Union

• Segregation

• Secession

• Underground Railroad

The separation of the state from a nation.

• Segregation

• Secession

• Reconstruction

• Union