Civil War Vocabulary

What is a civil war?

• class change time

• a war between people of the same country (Civil War lasted from 1861-1865)

• very civilized debate

• a war between 2 different countries

What are considered states rights?

• VA being the best

• the federal government having all the power

• stating your rights loudly

• The freedom of the states to have final say on laws that affect them

What does it mean to secede ?

• To leave, or separate from, a group

• To be very successful

• To stay together

• A union

To free from slavery

• Emancipate

• Enslave

• To colonize

• to explore

Segregated

• Independence

• Integration

• Kept separate from people in other groups

• To mix different groups

 A tax placed on goods that are imported into a country

• Tariff

• Boycott

• Manufacturing

• A discount

Free State

• A state with no rules

• The Declaration of Independence

• a state in the Union in which slavery was illegal before the Civil War (Northern states)

• The south

a state in the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War

• A continent

• Free State

• Slave State

• Europe

 the right to decide an issue by voting (Kansas-Nebraska Act)

• Independence

• Ty Throckmorton is my favorite student (no lie)

• Popular Sovereignty

• Topography

topography

• Making graphs

• Typing fast

• Continents

• the physical features of a place