Civil War Vocabulary

An economy that is supported by farming of cash crops; dependent on slaves for its success

• Agricultural Economy

• Cash Economy

• Industrial Economy

• Confederacy

border separating slave states and free states

• tariff

• secede

• Mason-Dixon Line

• plantation

An economy based on factories and manufacturing products; not dependent on slaves for its success

• tariff

• industrial economy

• secede

• agricultural economy

A war between regions of the same country

• battle

• world war

• civil war

• confederacy

United States of America

During the Civil War, it consisted of 23 states,

"The North"

• Abolitionist

• Union

• Confederacy

• The West

The government formed in 1861 by eleven southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States

"The South"

• Confederacy

• Union

• Secede

• Abolitionist

A large farm used to grow cash crops for sale

• Confederacy

• Tariff

• Plantation

• Factory

The position that the Federal government should not interfere with the states exercising their constitutional powers

• States' Rights

• Federal Rights

• Individual Rights

• Human Rights

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Tariff

• Confederate soldier

• Abolitionist

• Plantation owner

To focus on the interest of one's region

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Secede

• Abolitionist

• Sectionalism