U9 & U10 Vocab

Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

• Confederacy

• Secede

The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union.

• Confederacy

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

• Census

In an attempt to keep supplies from being delivered by ship to the Confederates, the United States Navy set up a ______________ of all southern ports during the Civil War.

• Confederacy

• Secede

• Sharecropping

• Blockade

1. Once General Grant was able to fully surround the city of Vicksburg, the Union army held the city under __________ for more than 2 months.

• siege

• blockade

• confederacy

• union

Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War. Southerners often considered them dishonest and looking to take advantage of the South's difficulties.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecroppers

• Black Codes

1. Every 10 years, the United States conducts a _____________ to determine if changes in representation, money distribution, and resources are needed.

• census

• survey

• poll

• search

A state on the border between the North and South. These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union

• Confederacy

• Union

• Border States

• Siege

1. During _______________, the U.S. saw African Americans elected to Congress, start new businesses, and enjoy freedoms they didn’t know before.

• Census

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Black Codes

Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers.

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction

• Carpetbagger

United by the belief that the federal government was violating their rights and not protecting their property, the southern states seceded and formed the ________________.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Census

• Blockade