Civil War Vocabulary

What is the term used for a person who wants to end or abolish slavery?

• Blockade

• Abolish/Abolitionist

• Confederacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

What does the term "Blockade" refer to in the context of the Civil War?

• A war between groups of people in the same country

• An order that comes from the U.S. President

• To stop people or supplies from entering or leaving a port or country

• The official statement to free slaves

What was the Civil War?

• An order from the U.S. President

• A war between groups of people in the same country

• A blockade to stop supplies

• A movement to abolish slavery

What does the term "Confederacy" refer to?

• The official statement to free slaves

• An order from the U.S. President

• States that separated themselves from the U.S. during the American Civil War

• A blockade to stop supplies

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

• A blockade during the Civil War

• The term used for a person who wants to end slavery

• An order from the U.S. President

• The official statement by President Lincoln to free slaves in the southern states

What is an Executive Order?

• A war between groups of people in the same country

• The term used for a person who wants to end slavery

• An order that comes from the U.S. President or a government agency and must be obeyed like a law

• The official statement to free slaves

What does the term "Export" mean?

• to bring a product into a country to be sold

• to send a product to be sold in another country

• a legal decision to make something have no effect

• a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election

What are "Jim Crow Laws"?

• a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election

• laws that did not give black people the same rights as white people

• to bring a product into a country to be sold

• a town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo

What does it mean to "Nullify" something?

• to send a product to be sold in another country

• a town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo

• a legal decision to make something have no effect

• to bring a product into a country to be sold

What is a "Poll Tax"?

• a legal decision to make something have no effect

• to send a product to be sold in another country

• a town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo

• a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election