Unit 6 Vocabulary: Civil War

Northern states that fought to keep the US together

• Union

• Confederacy

• Territorial Government

• Western Alliance

Southern States that Seceded from the US

• Confederacy

• Union

• Abolition

• Western Territories

When a state leaves a country

• Abolition

• Secession

• Repression

• Reconstruction

The Movement to end slavery in the United States​ (a)  

• Abolition
• Secession
• Reconstruction
• Repression
• John Brown's Promise

The order by Lincoln that freed enslaved people in Confederate States

• Anaconda Plan

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

The theory that states should make their own laws that override Federal Laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Equal Rights Amendment

• States' Rights

• 14th Amendment

Supreme Court ruling that said enslaved people were property, not citizens

• Loving Decision

• Worcester vs. Virginia

• Dred Scott Decision

• Brown Vs. Board

The idea that people in a territory should vote on whether to allow slavery or not​ (a)  

• Popular Sovereignty
• Dred Scott Decision
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Bleeding Kansas

Law that required people in the North to return enslaved people to "owners" in the South

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Runaway Law

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Loving vs. Virginia

A strategy where the military destroys everything useful to the enemy, including farms and railroads

• Sherman's March

• Total War

• War tribunal

• Anaconda Plan