Vocabulary Test - Civil War

A large farm that produces crops to sell

• ranch

• farm

• plantation

• corral

a person who wants to end slavery

• president

• abolitionist

• phlebotomist

• facetious

a tax paid on goods that come from another country

• tariff

• nullify

• secede

• blockage

to cancel

• tariff

• skirmish

• calvary

• nullify

to officially leave or separate from a group

• secede

• blockage

• plantation

• tariff

a group of soldiers who fight battles on horseback

• cowboy

• calvary

• soldier

• blockade

an effort to stop ships from going in or out of a port

• secede

• nullify

• blockade

• tariff

the time of rebuilding and change in the South after the Civil War

• reconstruction

• segregation

• skirmish

• sharecropper

a state celebration which started on June 19, 1866. a day of remembering when slaves in Texas learned that they were free.

• Juneteenth

• reconstruction

• segregation

• sharecropper

a farmer who pays part of what he or she grows to a landowner

• plantation

• skirmish

• sharecropper

• reconstruction