Civil War Vocabulary

Term referring to the United States during the 1800’s. Also another word for the North in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• South

Leaving a group formally. This refers to the Southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America.

• Secession

• Conscription

• Slave Code

Someone who opposed and fought against slavery. Famous people include Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• Abolitionist

• Slave Codes

• Union

A war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country.

• civil war

• World War

• secession

Another name for the 11 states that seceded (left) from the Union. Also known as the Southern states.

• Confederacy

• The Union

• United States of America

States' rights

• powers held by the United States

• powers given by the king

• people can do what ever they want to do in their states

a tax on foreign goods brought into a country

• Tariff

• Embargo

• Precedent

a person who flees or runs away

• fugitive

• abolitionist

• civil war

putting the interests of a region/state above the country as a whole

• nationalism

• sectionalism

• patriotism

What was the Underground Railroad?

• Secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states/areas.

• The first train ever built in the U.S.A.

• An underground route that was secretly used to smuggle goods in and out of the U.S.