Civil War Vocabulary Quiz

Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.

• desert   
• Confederacy 
• Antietam   
• Slavery 

 The rights belonging to various states, especially with reference to interpretation of Constitution.

• State's Rights
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Confederacy
• Anaconda Plan

The period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back to the Union.

• desert
• segregation
• Reconstruction
• Union

During the Civil War, the Union came to mean the government and armies of the North.

• Confederacy
• Union
• State's Rights
• Yankee

 A special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate sates to be free.  

• Grandfather Clause
• Black Codes
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Liberty Bell Signing

The act of withdrawing from a political body; the South withdrew from the United States over disagreements about slavery

• Secession

• Disaffiliation

• Civil Disobedience

• Political Blockading

Someone who opposed and fought against slavery. Famous abolitionists include Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• Abolitionist

• Conscription

• Slave Codes

• Union

Loyalty to a region or section of the country, instead of to the country as a whole.

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Union

The people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Border

• Popular Sovereignty

• States' Rights

A nickname for a supporter of the Confederate States of America.

• Rebel

• Confederacy

• Equality

• Secede