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WorksheetsAmerican Civil War Vocabulary
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
1. Meaning to break away from ...
Secede
Recede
Union
Precede
Soldiers who fight 'on foot'
Foot soldiers
Cavalry
Infantry
Chivalry
2 similar words to countryside ...
Urban
Rural
Suburb
Agrarian
Meaning to reach an agreement ... both side give up something to get something
Solution
Impose
Alliance
Compromise
Highest, best or most important ...
Federal
Supreme
Fugitive
Garrison
A person who did not want slavery to be allowed into new territories ... best answer
Free Soiler
Abolitionist
Yankee
Unionist
The 'big goverment' that governs over the smaller states ...
Fugitive
Feds
FBI
Federal
Odd one out ...
Southerner
Unionist
Confederate
Reference to a northerner in the Civil War... (New York)
Confederate
Yankee
Red Sox
Blue Man Group
Division and distruct due to regional and cultural differences - a Civil War cause
Sectionalism
Professionalism
States' Rights
North south divide
Who was elected president in 1860?
Ronald Mc Donald
Donald J Trumpet
Abraham Lincoln
Bob Marley
Frderick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln said he would ....
End slavery as soon as he was the president
Allow slavery where it already existed
Help with the expansion of slavery
Part of the U.S. Goverment - makes laws - Upper Chamber
White House
Senate
Supreme Court
What happened to Charles Sumner?
He invented the pritt stick
He got beaten up in the Senate
He became president of the Confederacy
More urban, had a stronger economy and better infastructure ....
The North
The South
Source type - a cannonball from the Civil War
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Source type - a model showing a Civil War battle
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Soldiers left to protect a specific place
Army
Battalion
Garrison
Militia
The first state to secede from the United States
Florida
South Carolina
New York
Kansas
Which side fired the first shots of the Civil War?
Union
The North
Confederacy
The American Civil War started in ...
1980
1861
1750
1690
