Civil War Vocabulary

Large southern farms that acquired massive wealth through the use of slave labor

• Secede

• Plantation

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

Strong loyalty to your region, or section, rather than to a whole nation

• Sectionalism

• Jim Crow Laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Secede

Granting the citizens of a state power to determine a States laws, usually through a vote

• Gettysburg Address

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Jim Crow Laws

• Popular Sovereignty

A law that made it a crime to harbor, or hide, "fugitive slaves"- better known as freedom seekers

• Plantation

• Sectionalism

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Abolition Movement

An anti-slavery movement in the 1800's that worked to abolish or eliminate, slavery in the United States

• Abolition Movement

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Sharecropping

• The Confederate States of America

to separate from, or leave, a larger group

• Reconstruction

• Popular Sovereignty

• Plantation

• Secede

The name of the country formed by the 11 States that seceded from the union

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Confederate States of America

• Secede

• Sharecropping

An order by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in the Confederate states, which set the stage for the official abolition of slavery in the U.S

• Jim Crow Laws

• The Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act

A great speech by Abraham Lincoln that dedicated Gettysburg to the men who fought and died there, while also calling for unity, freedom, and equality.

• The Gettysburg Address

• Plantatio

• Abolition Movement

• Reconstruction

The period of rebuilding the South and reuniting the country following the Civil War

• Popular Sovereignty

• Sectionalism

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction