Civil War Vocab

1. formal separation of a state from the Union
2. the use of a country’s ships to stop another country from trading, usually during a war.
4. a specific requirement set by a law
6. the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Many of their enslaved persons were moved to the Lower South once cotton became more profitable.
9. the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. These states' enslaved populations grew tremendously after the invention of the cotton gin.
11. a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features.
12. a tax on imported goods
13. someone who is running away or escaping
14. a continuous attack on a place with bombs or other artillery

1. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
3. agreement between two sides in which each side gives up something it wants
5. a war between citizens of the same country
7. the concept that a state's people should vote whether to be a slave state or free
8. Loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
10. Describing the era leading up to the Civil War (between 1812 and 1860)