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Vocabulary: Civil War

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Northern states that fought to keep the US together

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

c)

Territorial Government

d)

Western Alliance

2.

Southern States that Seceded from the US

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

c)

Abolition

d)

Western Territories

3.

When a state leaves a country

a)

Abolition

b)

Secession

c)

Repression

d)

Reconstruction

4.

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

Choose from the below words
Abolition
Secession
Reconstruction
Repression
John Brown's Promise
5.

The order by Lincoln that freed enslaved people in Confederate States

a)

Anaconda Plan

b)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

c)

Gettysburg Address

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

6.

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

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Equal Rights Amendment

c)

States' Rights

d)

14th Amendment

7.

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

a)

Loving Decision

b)

Worcester vs. Virginia

c)

Dred Scott Decision

d)

Brown Vs. Board

8.

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

Choose from the below words
Popular Sovereignty
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
9.

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

a)

Fugitive Slave Law

b)

Runaway Law

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Loving vs. Virginia

10.

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

a)

Sherman's March

b)

Total War

c)

War tribunal

d)

Anaconda Plan

11.

Major battle and turning point in the Civil War.

a)

Battle of Rattlesnake Hill

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Fort Sumnter

12.

The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and formerly enslaved people gained rights

a)

Nadir

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Rebirth

13.

Government Agency that helped formerly enslaved people with jobs, education, and housing

a)

Federalist Bureau

b)

Enslaved Education

c)

Lincoln's Promise

d)

Freedman's Bureau

14.

Law that officially ended slavery except as punishment for a crime

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

20th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

15.

President during the Civil War

a)

Lincoln

b)

Johnson

c)

Lee

d)

Polk