Civil War Vocabulary

to remember, celebrate, or show respect for important people or events

• Commemorate

• Celebrate

• Confederacy

• empathy

another term for the Conferate States of America, or the South

• Confederacy

• Empathy

• secession

• commemorate

a person or organization that supports the Confederate States of America

• Confederate

• Confederacy

• Nostalgia

• Union

the group of 11 Southern states that seperated from the Union in 1860-61, formed a separate government, and fought against the Union in the Civil War: also called "the South"

• Confederate States of America

• Union

• Secede

• Succession

the ability to understand the feelings and problems of others

• empathy

• nostalgia

• monument

• commemorate

a speech by a single person in a dramatic performance

• monologue

• empathy

• nostalgia

• commemorate

a statue or structure built to remember or show respect for a person or event

• monument

• commemorate

• empathy

• nostalgia

thinking or feeling that the past was really good and wishing things hadn't changed

• nostalgia

• empathy

• commemorate

• secession

to formally break away from an organization, such as a government or union, and become an independent country or group

• secede

• Union

• empathy

• monologue

the act of formally withdrawing from a government or union

• secession

• confederate

• commemorate

• union