Civil War Vocabulary

A plan to select people to serve in the military

• abolish

• draft

• serve

• reform

A system of secret routes used to help enslaved people escape to freedom

• the subway

• The Overhead Airplane

• The Underground Railroad

• Clinton's Ditch

An immediate end to slavery

• abolition

• reform

• secede

• suffrage

the southern states

• the Union

• the Southern States of America

• The Civil States

• The Confederacy

the northern states

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The Northern States of America

• the Civil States

a person born in a country or who has become a member of that country

• slave holder

• free person

• citizen

• community member

to set free

• abolish

• draft

• reform

• emancipate

The right to vote

• suffrage

• reform

• freedom

• civil rights

the act of treating someone, or a group of people, differently based on prejudiced views

• emancipate

• suffrage

• abolition

• discrimination

to withdraw from the Union

• abolish

• secede

• reform

• emancipate