Civil War Vocabulary

When part of a country breaks off from the rest of the country

• tariff

• secession

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

a tax on imported goods

• secession

• draft

• tariff

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Loyalty to one part of the country

• sectionalism

• secession

• confederacy

the right of people to make political decisions for themselves

• popular sovereignty

• telegraph

• total war

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

someone who joined the movement to end slavery

• confederacy

• abolitionist

• reconstruction

• assassination

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

A war between two regions or groups within a nation

• telegraph

• emancipation

• Civil War

• reconstruction

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

the government selects people who serve in the military

• tariff

• Jim Crow

• discrimination

• draft

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

when enslaved people are freed

• emancipation

• assassination

• Freedman's Bureau

• segregation

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

a war strategy to destroy an enemy's resources

• sharecropping

• reconstruction

• total War

the period of time when the South rejoined the Union

• reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau

• discrimination

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C