Civil War Vocab

To end slavery

• Blockade

• Abolish

• Tariff

• Cession

A tax on imported goods

• Cession

• Expenditure

• Tariff

• Blockade

A word relating to farming

• Agrarian

• Arsenal

• Fugitive

• Industry

A place to store weapons and military equipment

• Blockade

• Industry

• Tariff

• Arsenal

To seal off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• Arsenal

• Blockade

• Figitive

• Sectionalism

A person who flees or tries to escape a situation

• Tariff

• Fredonian

• Convict

• Fugitive

A group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services

• Blockade

• Sectionalism

• Trade
• Industry

The idea that a region or country is more important than a country as a whole

• State's rights

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Secession

To withdraw/leave formally from a country or nation

• State's rights

• Secession

• Fugitive

• Blockade

States can make decisions and pass laws separate from the federal government.

• Sectionalism

• Popular sovereignty

• State's rights

• Federalism