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WorksheetsCivil War Vocabulary
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 28mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a person who takes the law into his own hands
a)
Vigilante
b)
Skalawag
c)
Carpetbagger
d)
Sharecropper
2.
To withdraw from something, such as a nation.
a)
States' Rights
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Secede
d)
abolitionist
3.
The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
a)
Blockade
b)
Embargo
c)
Tariff
d)
Sectionalism
4.
What is the term for someone who wants to end slavery?
a)
Sharecropper
b)
Unionist
c)
Secessionist
d)
Abolitionist
5.
The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.
a)
Blockade
b)
Confederation
c)
States' Rights
d)
Republicanism
6.
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.
a)
Restoration
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Reclamation
d)
Reformation
7.
A farm worker who works someone else's land and pays to use it by giving the landowner a share of the crops (or profit) grown.
a)
Sharecropper
b)
Unionist
c)
Farmer
d)
Indentured Servant
8.
A person who supported the Union during the Civil War (and usually lived in the South).
a)
Abolitionist
b)
Secessionist
c)
Unionist
d)
Reformist
9.
What vocab word does this image represent?
a)
blockade
b)
state's rights
c)
homefront
d)
secede
10.
What is Confederacy?
a)
Coalition or union of people or groups
b)
to put an end to
c)
one who wants to abolish slavery
d)
the act of separting
11.
Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.
a)
desert
b)
Confederacy
c)
Antietam
d)
Slavery
12.
A change to the Constitution (1865) that abolished slavery in US (made it illegal):
a)
15th amendment
b)
13th amendment
c)
16th amendment
d)
14th amendment
13.
A white person in the South who worked with the federal government during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.
a)
Bull Run
b)
Scalawag
c)
slavery
d)
Civil War
14.
A change to the Constitution (1868) granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law:
a)
Literacy Tests
b)
14th Amendment
c)
13th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
15.
During the Civil War, the Union came to mean the government and armies of the North.
a)
Confederacy
b)
Union
c)
State's Rights
d)
Yankee
16.
Northerners who came to the south for economic reasons after the Civil War-they took advantage of citizens of the south.
a)
Scalawags
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Scoundrels
d)
Marketing Brokers
17.
Designed to help former slaves with food, clothing, find jobs, medical care, created schools (established 1865)
a)
State's Rights
b)
Freedmen's Bureau
c)
Poll Right Cause
d)
Abolition
18.
a machine that removes seeds from the cotton
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Sharecropper
c)
Scalawag
d)
Cotton Gin
19.
invented the cotton gin in 1793
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Sam Houston
20.
this act gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if their state would have slavery or not – the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had stated that the area would be free.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas Nebraska Act
c)
Bleeding Kansas
d)
Adams Onis Treaty
21.
court case where Dred Scott was a slave who went before the Supreme Court to try and gain his freedom but the court ruled that he did not have any rights that whites would accept…
a)
Brown vs Board of Education
b)
Rosa Parks vs U.S.
c)
Dred Scott Case
22.
the group of 11 states that seceded from the Union
a)
Southern States of America
b)
Confederate States of America
c)
United States of America
d)
Union States of America
23.
storehouse for weapons
a)
Arsenal
b)
Armory
c)
Warehouse
d)
Arms Room
24.
the place in South Carolina where the first battle of the Civil War occurred
a)
Battle of Bull Run
b)
Gettysberg
c)
Battle of New Orleans
d)
Ft. Sumter
25.
the capital of the Confederacy
a)
Washington D.C.
b)
Richmond, VA
c)
Austin, TX
d)
Nashville, TN
26.
to block trade; to position troops or ships so nothing can get through
a)
Anaconda Plan
b)
Blockade
c)
Partition
d)
A Wall
27.
ships/people who would slip through the blockade late at night in order to get goods/supplies to the troops
a)
Blockade Runner
b)
Carpetbagger
c)
Pirate
d)
Scalawag
28.
people(esp. in the South) who remained loyal to the North
a)
Unionist
b)
Confederates
c)
Rebels
d)
Yankees
29.
The decree(formal statement) on June 19, 1865, which stated that all slaves were free; African Americans in Texas called this day Juneteenth; it became a state holiday in 1979
a)
Juneteenth
b)
Juneeleventh
c)
Junetenth
d)
Juneninth
30.
The period of time after the Civil War in which the federal gov’t. planned to restore the South to the Union
a)
Rebuilding
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Restructuring
d)
Revolution
31.
laws (codes) that were made by the legislature to control African Americans; the codes limited the rights of the former slaves
a)
Civil Rights
b)
Black Codes
c)
Black Rights
d)
Slave Rights
32.
an organization established by the federal gov’t. to help and protect the newly freed slaves
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Slave Union
c)
Freedman's Union
d)
Former Slave Bureau
33.
Constitutional Amendment that banned slavery
a)
14th Amendment
b)
15th Amendment
c)
13th Amendment
d)
10th Amendment
34.
made all African Americans citizens
a)
14th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
10th Amendment
35.
to approve
a)
ratify
b)
rectify
c)
justify
d)
unify
36.
the people from other areas of the country (esp. the north) who moved south after the war; they came for various reasons: make money, as missionaries, politics…their name came from the type of suitcase they carried; they were Republicans
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Scalawags
37.
these were people native to the south who joined the Republican Party after the war; Southerners who supported Reconstruction; most were wealthy sugarcane planters
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Vigilante
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Scalawags
38.
a secret group of white men who wanted to punish the former slaves and make sure their rights were limited
a)
Scalawags
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
Vigilante
39.
wanted (major) changes in the government
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Moderate Democrats
c)
Moderate Republicans
d)
Radical Democrats
40.
wanted less extreme changes in the government
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Radical Democrats
c)
Moderate Republicans
d)
Moderate Democrats
41.
farm worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown; this system developed after slavery was ended
a)
Slave Labor
b)
Scalawag
c)
Sharecropper
d)
Carpetbagger
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