F&C Round 15: Civil War

an enslaved person who legally gained freedom

• siege

• census

• freedmen

• reform

an order made by President Abraham Lincoln that stated enslaved Black Americans were free in Confederate-controlled states.

• commerce

• Emancipation Proclamation

• tactics

• Constitution

a continuous attack with bombs, cannon fire, or artillery

• transcendentalism

• bombardment

• Confederacy

• terrain

the stopping of a product(s) being imported or exported completely by a country

• freedmen

• spiritual revival

• embargo

• annexed

a place where ships can come and go to load and unload their supplies/people.

• port

• Union

• 2nd Great Awakening

• interchangeable parts

a military act of surrounding a city or base, attacking it, and cutting off supplies

• secede

• labor

• siege

• inaugural address

a method of arranging and moving forces in combat used to achieve a goal

• tactics

• Emancipation Proclamation

• legislative branch

• sediment

the government of the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61

• social activism

• bombardment

• abolitionist

• The Confederacy

a ceremony where the new president gives their first formal speech to the country

• American Revolution

• inaugural address

• naval blockade

• embargo

another name for the United States of America, specifically the states that were fighting the Confederacy during the Civil War

• port

• Manifest Destiny

• Union

• urbanization