Civil War/Reconstruction Vocab Quiz

What does secede mean?

• withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• an agreement that allowed California into the union as a free state, divided the rest of the Mexican cession into two territories, settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in Washington, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

• Ironclad

• Total War

• Emancipation Proclamation

• General Robert E. Lee

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all of their resources to the war effort.

• Ironclad

• Union

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Total War

This refers to the Southern states that left the Union during the Civil War. All together there were 11 states: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

• Confederacy

• Union

• North

• United States

Term referring to the United States during the 1800’s. Also another word for the North in the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• South

• Grey

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

• Blockade
• Embargo
• Tariff
• Sectionalism

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.

• Blockade
• Confederation
• States' Rights
• Republicanism

The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.

• Restoration
• Reconstruction
• Reclamation
• Reformation

The act of surrounding and attacking a fortified area over a period of time.

• Siege

• Border States

• Topography

• Strategy

Confederate soldier, so called because of opposition to the established government.

• Yankee

• Rebels

• ironclad

• Blockade-runner