Civil War Vocabulary

To separate from, or leave, a larger group.

• Abolition Movement

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Plantation

A law that made it a crime to harbor, or hide, "fugitive slaves"- better known as Freedom Seekers.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

Large southern farms that acquired massive wealth through the use of slave labor.

• Sectionalism

• Plantation

• Reconstruction

Granting the citizens of a state the power to determine a state's laws, usually through a vote.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Sharecropping

• Abolition Movement

The name of the country formed by the eleven states that seceded from the union.

• Gettysburg Address

• The Confederate States of America

• Jim Crow Laws

A great speech by Abraham Lincoln that dedicated Gettysburg to the men who fought and died there, while also calling for unity, freedom, and equality.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Sharecropping

• Gettysburg Address

Strong loyalty to your region, or section, rather than to the whole nation.

• Plantation

• Sectionalism

• Secede

An order by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in the Confederate States, which set the stage for the official abolition of slavery in the U.S.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

The legal segregation, or separation, of the races.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sectionalism

A system where farmers were paid by a landowner with a share of the crop that they farmed that put many former slaves in debt.

• Reconstruction

• Sectionalism

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping