Civil War Vocabulary

What does urban mean?

• A large, undeveloped area with few homes and other buildings

• something that is expensive

• a tax on products

• A city environment with many people and buildings

What does rural mean?

• A large, undeveloped area with few homes and other buildings

• Something that is expensive

• A tax on products

• A city environment with many people and buildings

What is manufacturing?

• Growing crops and raising

  animals

• Building houses and buildings

• Making goods using natural,

  human, and capital resources

  in factory settings, with many

  workers

• Making things for people, places and things

What does tariff mean?

• Leaving a country

• A tax on goods from other countries

• Growing crops and raising animals

• A law or rule

What does compromise mean?

• A tax on goods from other countries

• Promising to do something for someone else

• A middle ground between two extremes

• Giving up something for someone else

What does fugitive mean?

• Someone who is a criminal

• Someone who has escaped from a

  place or has gone into hiding

• Someone who moved west for a better life

• Someone who moved to the US for a better life

What does the Union mean?

• A couple getting married and being together forever

• Putting two objects together to make one thing

• The southern states that joined together during the Civil War

• The Northern

  states that joined together during the Civil War

What does the Confederacy mean?

• The Northern states that joined together during the Civil War

• The group of American Indians that joined together against the French

• The group of American Indians that joined together against the English

• The Southern states that seceded from the US and joined together during the Civil War

What does secede mean?

• To join together

• To be successful

• To pull out or withdraw from

• To win a war

Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington