Civil War Vocab

3. Nickname for a Union soldier.
5. Soldiers who fight on foot.
6. The Northern states that remained loyal to the federal government.
7. A 19th-century warship protected by iron plates, marking the end of wooden navies.
8. A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a battle.
9. A system of required military service (also known as conscription).
10. Soldiers who fight on horseback.
14. A strategy of destroying an enemy’s resources (crops, railroads, factories) to break their will to fight.
15. An exaggerated loyalty to one’s own region of the country (the North or the South) rather than to the nation as a whole.
16. A system where the residents of a territory vote to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
18. To formally withdraw from an organization or alliance (in this case, the Union).

1. The idea that states should have more power than the federal government, specifically regarding the right to allow slavery.
2. Address A famous, short speech by Lincoln dedicated to the principles of human equality and the preservation of the Union.
4. An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control.
8. The 11 Southern states that seceded to form their own nation.
11. A person who worked to end slavery.
12. Using ships to close off a port to prevent supplies from entering.
13. Slave states that did not secede (DE, MD, KY, MO).
17. Nickname for a Confederate soldier.