A military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender.

• Siege
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty

Requiring people to enter military service.

• Conscription
• Empresario
• Secession
• Popular Sovereignty
• Greenback

Name given to Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South.

• Scalawag
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty

Unit of paper currency first issued by the federal government during the Civil War.

• Greenback
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty

Person who arranged for the settlement of Texas in the 1800’s.

• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty
• Greenback

Indirectly vetoing a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill.

• Pocket Veto
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty

Money given as a reward, as to encourage enlistment in the army.

• Bounty
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty

Government subject to the will of the people; before the Civil War the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether slavery would be allowed there.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Greenback

Withdrawal from the Union

• Secession
• Empresario
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty
• Greenback

Farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop.

• Sharecropper
• Empresario
• Secession
• Conscription
• Popular Sovereignty