Civil War Vocabulary Chapters 1-8

the part of the government responsible for making laws

• Legislature

• Executive

• Judiciary

• Constitution

an area of land

• territory

• statehood

• Union

• surveyor

The states that made up the United States of America; during the Civil War the states that supported the U.S. government

the condition of being a state in the United States

• amendment

• territory

• cultivate

• statehood

a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s

• slavery

• deliverance

• abolitionist

• surveyor

the action of rescuing someone or setting them free

• abolitionist

• deliverance

• consent

• resistance

a worker who measures and examines land

• surveyor

• abolitionist

• territory

• compromise

an official change or addition to the Constitution

• legislature

• constitutional amendment

• character

• self-evident

the qualities that make up the personality and behavior of a person or a country

• statehood

• constitution

• civil rights

• character

when each side in a dispute gives up some of their demands to reach an agreement

• surveyor

• outwit

• compromise

• resist