Chapter 8 Civil War Vocabulary Northern Lights

A change to the government process or document.

• bayonet

• secede

• amendment

• enlist

To withdraw from an organization or country.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• secede

• amendment

• enlist

The United States of America often in reference to the Northern states during the Civil War.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Confederacy

• enlist

A war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States of America, Northern States and the Southern states that seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Confederacy

• Civil War

To join the military.

• enlist

• regiment

• abolitionist

• Civil War

An order issued by the U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1862. It announced that the enslaved people in the rebelling confederate states were free.

• enlist

• Civil War

• amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

Military soldiers who walk and fight on foot.

• enlist

• Civil War

• amendment

• infantry

Someone who wants to end slavery.

• enlist

• abolitionist

• amendment

• regiment

The eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War. Also called the Confederate States of America.

• Union

• abolitionist

• Confederacy

• regiment

A pointed knife or sword attached to the end of a gun barrel.

• bayonet

• abolitionist

• Confederacy

• regiment