Unit 10: Texas in the Civil War Vocabulary

Studying or making a living from farming

• Agriculture

• Industrial

• slavery

• states rights

An act of war in which one country uses ships to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving another country

• slavery

• sectionalism

• blockade

• states rights

The group of 11 southern states that separated themselves from the U.S. during the American Civil War to form their own country.

• Union

• slavery

• Confederate States of America (Confederacy)

• blockade

Forcing a person to work for no pay, to obey commands, and to lose his or her freedom.

• enslave

• blockade

• agriculture

• industrial

Of or relating to factories, the people who work in factories, or the things made in factories

• agriculture

• slavery

• enslave

• industrial

to separate from a nation or a state to become independent

• abandon

• secede

• slavery

• sectionalism

A tendency to be more concerned with the interests of your region than with the problems and interests of the country as a whole

• slavery

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• blockade

The system of a person being owned, bought, or sold by another person as if they were property

• slavery

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• blockade

The belief that individual states should have the power to decide not to follow national laws they don’t like

• slavery

• states' rights

• sectinalism

• blockade

a tax on goods coming into or leaving a country

• slavery

• sectionalism

• tariff

• blockade