1. Civil War Vocabulary

2. Jefferson Davis
(South) president of the Confederate States of America

3. Confederate States of America
(South)states that seceded from the union and formed their own country

4. Compromise of 1850
(South)agreement between the North and South; California would be a free state; harsher laws for slaveholders to recapture runaway slaves

5. Sectionalism
(South)sectionalism was looking out for your own part of the country; South supported slavery and wanted to let the states decide on slavery

6. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
(North)all black regiment that fought in the North

7. Republican Party
(North)party that was against slavery; Lincoln’s political party

8. Abe Lincoln
(North)16th president; lead the Union(North) during the Civil War

9. slavery
(South)forced labor of captured Africans; South used slavery as a workforce on plantations and farms

10. Greater manpower/supplies
(North)North has over 20 million people; supplies are also greater due to abundant industry

11. Fugitive Slave Act
(South)law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves

12. Farmland/plantations
(South)the South forced slaves to work on plantations/farms

13. Robert E. Lee
(South)general of the Confederate Army; well-trained military leader

14. Ulysses S Grant
(North)general of the Union army

15. Anaconda Plan
(North)the North’s strategy to win the war

16. secede
(South)withdrawal; the Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America

17. Emancipation Proclamation
(North)military strategy during the Civil War to free all slaves in the Southern states

18. Nationalism/federal laws
(North)having pride in your country and supporting the idea to keep and help the nation as a whole; federal laws are for the entire nation

19. Kansas-Nebraska Act
(South)law that allowed people to vote on the issue of slavery; caused (Bleeding Kansas)

20. Cities/industry
(North) industry made the Northern economy strong; used paid workers in factories; lead to the growth of cities

21. 13th amendment
(North)amendment that ended slavery in the United States

22. Fighting to protect their homes
(South)the South fought to defend their homes during the Civil War; gave the people a greater will to fight

23. Stephen A. Douglass
(South)debated with Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race of 1856; supported the expansion of slavery in the territories