Civil war vocabulary

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

• States' Rights
• Reconstruction
• Secede
• abolitionist

A nation at war with itself.

• Homefront
• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Revolutionary War

A document signed by President Lincoln during the Civil War declaring that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.

• The Embargo Act
• The Reconstruction Act
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Articles of Confederation

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

• Blockade
• Embargo
• Tariff
• Sectionalism

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.

• Blockade
• Confederation
• States' Rights
• Republicanism

What vocab word does this image represent?

• blockade
• state's rights
• homefront
• secede

What is the document President Lincoln signing?

• Civil War
• state's rights
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction

Term referring to the United States during the 1800’s. Also another word for the North in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• South

• Grey

This refers to the Southern states that left the Union during the Civil War. All together there were 11 states: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• United States

Leaving a group formally. This refers to the Southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America.

• Secession

• Conscription

• Slave Code

• Fugitive Slave Act