Civil War and Reconstruction Vocab

Match the following- Together they are known as the Civil War Amendments or Reconstruction Amendments

• Abolished slavery

• 14th Amendment (MEN)

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

• 13th Amendment (FREE)

• Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• 15th Amendment (VOTE)

the rights or powers retained by the regional governments of a

federal union under the provisions of a federal constitution

• States' Rights

• The Confederate States of America

• The Union

• Freedom

The principle that allows states to make their own laws in certain matters, while still being part of a federal union

• States' Sovereignty

• Confederate Law

• Union Law

• Freedom Law

The term for a central government in a federal union that shares power with regional governments

• Federal Government

• Confederate Government

• Union Government

• Freedom Government

withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

• Annexation

• Armistice

• Secede

• Supreme Court

the attempt by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Britain and the rest of Europe.

• Tariffs

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Blockade

• Civil Rights

Match the following

• Scalawag

• 1. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

• Sharecroppers

• a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• Tenant farmers

• 1. a person who farms rented land.

• Carpetbaggers

• Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit

the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers. It can continue for a specified amount of time, or indefinitely, and standard civil liberties may be suspended for as long as needed.

• gerrymandering

• impeachment

• martial law