Civil War and Reconstruction Vocab

Match the following- Together they are known as the Civil War Amendments or Reconstruction Amendments

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

• 14th Amendment (MEN)

• Abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment (FREE)

• Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• 15th Amendment (VOTE)

the rights or powers retained by the regional governments of a

federal union under the provisions of a federal constitution

• States' Rights

• The Confederate States of America

• The Union

• Freedom

The principle that allows states to make their own laws in certain matters, while still being part of a federal union

• States' Sovereignty

• Confederate Law

• Union Law

• Freedom Law

The term for a central government in a federal union that shares power with regional governments

• Federal Government

• Confederate Government

• Union Government

• Freedom Government

withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

• Annexation

• Armistice

• Secede

• Supreme Court

the attempt by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Britain and the rest of Europe.

• Tariffs

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Blockade

• Civil Rights

Match the following

• Scalawag

• 1. a person who farms rented land.

• Carpetbaggers

• a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• Sharecroppers

• Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit

• Tenant farmers

• 1. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers. It can continue for a specified amount of time, or indefinitely, and standard civil liberties may be suspended for as long as needed.

• gerrymandering

• impeachment

• martial law