Civil War Vocabulary - Fast and Curious

To withdraw from the country to form a separate country, state, or territory

• Secede

• Border States

• Union Army

• Confederate

A slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal

• Secede

• Border States

• Union Army

• Confederate

Army of the United States of America

• Secede

• Border States

• Union Army

• Confederate

Southern army that was formed after the Confederate States seceded from the Union States

• Confederate Army

• Emancipate

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Presidential Declaration that freed the slaves in Confederate territory under Union control.

• Confederate Army

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Freedom

• Bounty

Also called “the draft” - requires all healthy men over the age of 18 to serve in the military.

• Conscription

• Abolitionist

• Slave Codes

• Union

Definition: a war against an enemy's civilians and resources as well as its armies

• destruction war
• total war
• march to war
• totality war

Armored naval vessel (an iron plated ship).

• Yankee

• Rebels

• ironclad

• Blockade-runner

A blockade is...

• Someone who opposes the war.

• The blocking of waterways, or inlets by ships of war.

Person killed our wounded in a war.

• Blockade
• casualty
• habeas corpus
• siege