Civil War Vocabulary Activity

2. The strategy used by the Northern army to prevent supplies from getting in to the Southern ports.
4. All men between 18 and 35 years old were required to join the military during the Civil War.
5. Society not participating in the war struggled to survive.
8. This cloth replaced the machine-made fabrics made in the textile mills before the Civil War.
10. A group of people, that are not law enforcement, who take the law into their own hands.
12. The total impact of people that fought in the Civil War.
13. States can choose if they want to follow a law or not passed by the federal government.
16. Women, children, and enslaved workers did most of the farm work during the war.

1. The way a region makes its money.
3. A written description of why Texas felt it could free itself from the allegiance to the United States.
6. States entered the Union voluntarily and could choose to leave if they felt their rights were violated.
7. Slavery and states rights were the main issues concerning the people of the South.
9. A medicine used to prevent fever.
11. Focusing on the interests of a specific region rather than the nation as a whole.
14. The states left the Union governed by the federal government of the United States.
15. People that supported the federal government and did not support the Confederate cause.