Civil War Vocabulary

A person opposed to slavery

• Confederate

• abolitionist

• carpetbagger

• rebel

Farming and raising crops

• artillery

• siege

• proclamation

• agriculture

A place used to make and store weapons and ammunition

• aresenal

• artillery

• flank

• ironclad

Cannons and other high-powered explosives

• ironclad

• skirmish

• artillery

• siege

A series of military operations

• campaign

• confederacy

• federal

• siege

the name given to Northerners who went to the South to profit from the defeat of the Confederacy

• Confederate

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• Union

soldiers fighting on horseback

• ironclad

• siege

• skirmish

• cavalry

a group of states working together

• secede

• emancipation

• federal

• confederacy

referring to the Southern states which left the Union during the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Confederate

• secede

• rebel

To free slaves

• proclamation

• federal

• emancipation

• campaign