Civil War
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to region.
🗑
|
||||
| Fugitive | A Runaway or a person trying to run away.
🗑
|
||||
| Secede | To leave.
🗑
|
||||
| Abstain | To not take part in some activity, such as voting.
🗑
|
||||
| Popular Sovereignty | Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people.
🗑
|
||||
| Border Ruffians | Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas' election during the mid-1850s.
🗑
|
||||
| Arsenal | A storage place for weapons and ammunition.
🗑
|
||||
| Martyr | A person who sacrifices his or her life for a principal or cost.
🗑
|
||||
| Secession | Withdrawal from from the Union.
🗑
|
||||
| States Rights | The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
🗑
|
||||
| Border State | Any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
🗑
|
||||
| Blockade | An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
🗑
|
||||
| Offensive | Position of attacking or the attack itself.
🗑
|
||||
| Rebel | Confederate soldier, so called because of opposition to the established government.
🗑
|
||||
| Yankee | A Union Soldier.
🗑
|
||||
| Blockade Runner | A ship that sails into and out of a blockaded area.
🗑
|
||||
| Ironclad | An armored naval vessel.
🗑
|
||||
| Casualty | A military person killed, wounded or captured.
🗑
|
||||
| Emancipate | To free from slavery.
🗑
|
||||
| Ratify | To give official approval to.
🗑
|
||||
| Habeas Corpus | A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned.
🗑
|
||||
| Draft | A preliminary version of a piece of writing.
🗑
|
||||
| Bounty | A sum of money paid to entice enlistment in the military.
🗑
|
||||
| Greenback | A dollar bill
🗑
|
||||
| Inflation | An general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
🗑
|
||||
| Entrenched | To dig trenches for defensive purposes around (oneself, a military position, etc.).
🗑
|
||||
| Total War | A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Layomi Akande
Popular History sets