7th Grade Texas History:Civil War Unit Vocabulary

To start a new government

To end or stop slavery

To create new laws

To support a war

A type of government

A method to increase trade

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

A new form of transportation

A war between different countries

A war between groups of people in the same country

A war fought in the air

A war that lasts less than a year

A group of northern states

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

A new political party

A type of military strategy

War of 1812

Treaty of Versailles

Revenue Act

Emancipation Proclamation

Presidential recommendation

Cryptocurrency

Demonstration

Executive Order

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

Export

Port

Jim Crow Laws

Import

A tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote

Laws that did not give black people the same rights as white people

A legal decision to make something have no effect

A town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo

To send a product to be sold in another country

A tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote

A legal decision to make something have no effect

A town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo