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Civil War Vocabulary
Vocabulary Over Civil War
Term | Definition |
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States' Rights | The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
secede | To withdraw from something, such as a nation |
abolitionist | A person who wanted to end slavery |
vigilante | People who take the law into their own hands |
arsenal | Storehouses for weapons |
blockade | The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
Blockade Runner | Ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods |
Unionist | People loyal to the Union during the American Civil War |
Confederate | People loyal to the South during the American Civil War |
conscription | The forced enrollment of people into the military service |
Reconstruction | The federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War |
amendment | Formal changes to a document |
sharecropper | A farm worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown. |
sectionalism | Loyalty to a state or a section rather than the whole country |
black codes | Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by the Southern governments |
Juneteenth | June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day enslaved people in Texas |