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civil war words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | A person that wanted to abolish slavery |
| Agrarian | A person that farms |
| Auction | Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder. |
| Bayonet | a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun |
| Blockade | the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place |
| carpet bagger | a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics |
| compromise | a settlement of differences |
| emancipate | to free (a slave) from bondage |
| confederacy | The name chosen by the states that left the union during the time of the civil war |
| musket | a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers |
| plantation | a usually large farm on which cotton, tobacco, etc. were grown |
| reconstruction | the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War. |
| scalawag | a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain. |
| secede | to break away |
| sharecropper | a farmer that let poor farmers use small areas of their land |
| siege | he act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies |
| textile | cloth or fabric |
| Underground Railroad | a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the south |
| union | another name for the United States |
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