Civil War Vocabulary

States that remained a part of the United States during the Civil War (states that did not secede.)

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Gettysburg Address

• Confederate States of America

States that seceded from the United States and formed a new government under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Gettysburg Address

• Confederate States of America

President Abraham Lincoln’s act that declared slavery illegal in the Confederacy.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Gettysburg Address

• Confederate States of America

Speech made by President Lincoln at Gettysburg cemetery to honor those that had died in battle.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Gettysburg Address

• Confederate States of America

A plan.

• Siege

• Border States

• Topography

• Strategy

Physical features of the earth’s surface such as mountains.

• Siege

• Border States

• Topography

• Strategy

The act of surrounding and attacking a fortified area over a period of time.

• Siege

• Border States

• Topography

• Strategy

Slave states that remained in the Union (M.K.M.D) (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware).

• Siege

• Border States

• Topography

• Strategy

Confederate soldier, so called because of opposition to the established government.

• Yankee

• Rebels

• ironclad

• Blockade-runner

Union soldier.

• Yankee

• Rebels

• ironclad

• Blockade-runner