American Civil War Vocabulary

Being loyal to a section of one's country instead of to the country itself

• Secede

• Sectionalism

• Border State

• Isolationism

the Confederate States of America, comprised of the 11 states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War

• Union

• United States

• United Union

• Confederacy

States that remained loyal to the United States government during the Civil War

• Confederacy

• Union

• United States

• 13 Colonies

A state that remained in the Union (did not secede) but allowed slavery

• Blockade

• Border States

• Missouri Compromise

• Confederacy

A war fought between people of the same country

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• French and Indian War

• French Revolution

The closing of an area during wartime to prevent people and supplies from moving in and out

• Boycott

• Total War

• Blockade

• Segregation

A method of warfare in which both sides target the opposing side's civilians as well as soldiers

• Anaconda Plan

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Total War

The Union's strategy for beating the Confederacy in the Civil War

• Anaconda Plan

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

The process of selecting men to serve in the armed forces involuntarily

• Gettysburg Address

• Draft

• Blockade

• Total War

A famous speech made by President Lincoln at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Dred Scott Decision

• Kansas-Nebraska Act