Unit 8 Vocabulary - The Civil War

Fill in the blank: _______ - a war between citizens of the same country.

• Civil War

• World War

• Cold War

• Revolutionary War

Fill in the blank: _______ - a public or official announcement.

• Proclamation

• Declaration

• Notification

• Statement

Fill in the blank: _______ – the principle that states a government’s power lies with the people.

• Popular sovereignty

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Totalitarianism

Fill in the blank: _______ – rights guaranteed to the states under the principle of federalism.

• States’ rights

• Federal rights

• Individual rights

• Community rights

Fill in the blank: _______ - Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

• Rebel

• Union

• Patriot

• Loyalist

Fill in the blank: _______ - Union soldiers were called this during the Civil War.

• Yankee

• Rebel

• Confederate

• Johnny Reb

Fill in the blank: _______ - loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Federalism

• Patriotism

Fill in the blank: _______ - physical features of a land surface in a place or region.

• Topography

• Geography

• Cartography

• Geology

Fill in the blank: _______ - a tax placed on goods coming from another country, to make people choose locally made items instead of foreign made ones.

• Tariff

• Subsidy

• Quota

• Embargo

A city environment with many people and buildings is known as:

• Urban

• Rural

• Suburban

• Countryside