Texas Civil War Vocab

3. – a term used by Southerners to describe Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often to gain political or economic power.
5. – abolished slavery throughout the United States.
6. – the Northern states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War; also called Yankees or the Blue.
7. Farmers – people who lived and worked on land owned by someone else, usually paying rent in cash or crops.
10. Law – rule by the military in which normal civilian laws are suspended.
12. – taxes placed on imported goods.
14. – guaranteed the right to vote to men regardless of race.
15. Proclamation – an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that freed enslaved people in the Confederate states.
16. – white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with Republicans after the Civil War.

1. – to formally withdraw from a group or political body, such as a state leaving the United States.
2. – the period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and reuniting the nation.
4. – the group of Southern states that seceded from the United States during the Civil War.
5. – granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all U.S. citizens.
8. Movement – a movement to abolish (end) slavery in the United States.
9. – the year the Civil War began.
11. – a farmer who worked land owned by someone else and paid rent with a share of the crops, often remaining in debt.
13. – loyalty to a specific region of the country rather than the nation as a whole.
16. Rights – the belief that states have powers reserved to them rather than controlled by the federal government.