Civil War Vocabulary

Terms that refer to the North and the United States

• Rebel

• Union

• Yankee

• Federal

Terms that refer to the South or Confederate States of America

• Union

• Rebel

• Confederate

• Federal

A military fort our post

• Border State

• Secede

• Garrison

• Blockade

States where slavery was legal, but did not secede to join the Confederacy

• Appomattox States

• Blockade States

• Border States

• Loyal States

To break away from

• Concede

• Cede

• Succeed

• Secede

Where Confederate commander, Robert E. Lee surrendered

• Gettysburg

• Appomattox Courth House

• Antietam

• Siege of Vicksburg

Union strategy to win the war

• Defensive Plan

• Pickett's Plan

• Lincoln's Plan

• Anaconda Plan

King Cotton refers to the importance of cotton to Southern

• Politics

• Economy

• Society

A naval term that describes a port being blocked by ships

• Blockade

• Impassable

• Secede

• Siege

First full scale battle of the American Civil War

• Battle of Bull Run

• Fort Sumter

• Manasses

• Gettysburg