Civil War Vocabulary

any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War

• Secede

• Slave State

• Border State

• Free State

a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

• Infrastructure

• Tariff

• Confederacy

• Abolitionists

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

a person killed or injured in a war or accident

• Casualty

• Stow

• Radical

• Union

holding a position by inheritance

• Radical

• Secede

• Hereditary

• Tariff

• pack or store (an object) carefully and neatly in a particular place

• Radical

• Stow

• Infrastructure

• Tariff

• the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

• Border State

• Casualty

• Radical

• State's Rights

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

the northern states of the US that opposed the seceding Confederate states in the Civil War

• Confederacy

• Tariff

• Union

• Secede

• a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform

• Abolitionists

• Infrastructure

• Stow

• Infrastructure

a person who favors the destruction of a practice or institution

• Abolitionists

• Hereditary

• Casualty

• Radical

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

• Union

• Secede

• Confederacy

• Tariff