Civil War Vocab

Dixie

• A large farm

• A person who wanted to end slavery

• a nickname for the south

• Union soldier

Confederacy

• it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery.

• the power to reduce service in the army by paying a fee

• Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

• A loose union of independent states in the South

Union

• the power to reduce service in the army by paying a fee

• A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.

• The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.

• A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.

Dred Scott Decision

• a loose union of independent states in the south

• symbol of the divide between north and south

• a nickname for confederate states

• supreme court ruling that declared slaves were property

Commutation

• symbol of the divide between north and south

• a large farm

• the power to reduce service in the army by paying a fee

• a loose union of independent states in the south

Fugitive Slave Law

• Southern whites who opposed republican policy

• law required northern states to return escaped slaves to their owners

• a system in which power is divided between national and state govs

• the power or right to act, or think how one wants without restraint

Emancipation Proclamation

• a northern who opposed using force

• northern whites who moved to the south who served as leaders

• Said all slaves in confederate states were free

• the condition of being owned by another person

Mason Dixon Line

• a loose union of independent states in the South

• Supreme court ruling that declared slaves were property

• symbol that divides the north and south over slavery

• the power to reduce service in the army

Scalawags

• southern whites who supported republican party

• a person who wanted to end slavery

• law required northern states to return escaped slaves

• a system in which power is divided between national and state govs

Border States

• states between the north and the south

• a person who wanted to end slavery

• southern whites who supported republicans

• before the war