Civil War Vocabulary

Term referring to the United States during the 1800’s. Also another word for the North in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• South

• Grey

This refers to the Southern states that left the Union during the Civil War. All together there were 11 states: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• United States

What does amendment mean?

• A change made to a law, bill or document

• A person who has been freed from slavery

• Rule by an army instead of the usual civic authorities

What caused the Civil War?

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

• States Rights

• Tariffs

• All of these

Placing the wants and needs of your region (local area or state) before the wants and needs of your country.

• Sectionalism

• Emancipation

• Secede

• Reconstruction

To withdraw, including the withdrawal of the states from the Union.

• Sectionalism

• Emancipation

• Secede

• Reconstruction

The act of rebuilding that generally refers to the United States rebuilding the union of all states post (after) -Civil War.

• Sectionalism

• Emancipation

• Secede

• Reconstruction

A tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crops they cultivate from a field someone else owns.

• Confederacy

• Sharecropper

• Martial Law

• Abolitionist

• Blockade

When the MILITARY is put in charge of enforcing the laws, usually in defeated territories or during a state of emergency.

• Confederacy

• Sharecropper

• Martial Law

• Abolitionist

• Blockade

A military strategy that blocks off an area to prevent an enemy from moving supplies in or out of said area.

• Confederacy

• Sharecropper

• Martial Law

• Abolitionist

• Blockade