Vocabulary Civil War

2. – The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union.
8. – The murder of an important leader; Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
9. Address – A short speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, reminding Americans of the goals of liberty and equality.
11. – A change or addition to the U.S. Constitution (such as the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments that ended slavery and gave citizenship and voting rights).
12. – The Northern states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War.
13. Bureau – An agency created after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom.
16. – The act of freeing someone from slavery.
17. – To formally withdraw or break away from a nation or organization.
18. – A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
19. – A system where poor farmers worked land owned by others in return for a share of the crops.

1. – A soldier who is killed, wounded, missing, or captured in battle.
3. War – A military strategy of destroying not just the enemy’s army but also its resources and will to fight.
4. – Using ships to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving a place.
5. Crow Laws – Laws in the South that enforced racial segregation after the Civil War.
6. Rights – The belief that individual states should make their own laws, often used by the South to defend slavery.
7. – A law requiring people to serve in the military if chosen.
10. – The Southern states that seceded from the Union to form their own government.
14. Proclamation – The 1863 order by President Abraham Lincoln that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
15. – The separation of people based on race, especially common after the Civil War.
20. War – A war fought between people of the same country, in this case the North and South of the United States.