The Civil War

An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• Blockade

• Provisional

• Racism

Arranged for the present as a temporary measure

• Amnesty

• Provisional

• Confiscate

An opinion or judgement made before the facts are known, not based on actual experience or reason

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Impeach

Required enlistment for service, usually for the military.

• Contraband

• Insurrection

• Conscription

Unfair behavior directed at someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

• Confiscate

• Racism

• Prejudice

Formerly enslaved people who have been emancipated.

• Blockade

• Freedpeople

• Inflation

A general increase in prices and decrease in the purchasing power of money.

• Contraband

• Conscription

• Inflation

An enslaved black person who either escaped or was transported across Union lines; goods forbidden to be supplied to people who are engaged in a war.

• Inflation

• Contraband

• Ambivalent

A farming arrangement in which a farmer rents a plot of land and a house from a landowner

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Crop lien

A type of tenant farming in which the tenant receives a share of the crop from the landowner as payment for labor, or gives the landowner a large share of the crop in exchange for using the land but does not get to determine the crop and does not own the tools, work animals or equipment.

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Crop lien