1. Civil War Vocabulary

2. Abraham Lincoln
The 16th president of the United States known for his Emancipation Proclamation Speech

3. A plot to kill an important government figure
Assassination
A plot to kill an important government figure

4. A conflict involving violence
Battle
A conflict involving violence

5. California Gold Rush
When gold was found in Sutter’s Mill, settlers moved westward in search of gold

6. An injured or dead person as a result of war
Casualty
An injured or dead person as a result of war

7. A conflict between people from the same country or background
Civil War
A conflict between people from the same country or background

8. Decided how slavery would work in new territories
Compromise of 1850
Decided how slavery would work in new territories

9. The group of Southern States that seceded from the United States
Confederacy
The group of Southern States that seceded from the United States

10. Freedom from a controlling body
Emancipation
Freedom from a controlling body

11. Emancipation Proclamation
A speech made by President Lincoln addressing slavery

12. Expansionism
A way of thinking that meant Americans had the right to expand where they chose

13. Mostly Western settlers that did not agree with Eastern politics
Free Soil Party
Mostly Western settlers that did not agree with Eastern politics

14. A law that made it illegal to not return escaped slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
A law that made it illegal to not return escaped slaves

15. Leader of the Union Army
General Grant
Leader of the Union Army

16. Leader of the Confederate Army
General Lee
Leader of the Confederate Army

17. Harriet Tubman
A runaway slave that led other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

18. A person working to pay off a debt
Indentured Servant
A person working to pay off a debt

19. President of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States

20. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed new western states to decide by popular sovereignty if slavery would be allowed in that state

21. Lincoln Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the election of 1858

22. Prohibited slavery above the 36’30” line and the Northwest territory
Missouri Compromise
Prohibited slavery above the 36’30” line and the Northwest territory

23. Nationalism
A way of thinking that an individual’s first responsibility is to one’s nation

24. Popular Sovereignty
When a new state’s citizens vote whether they want to have slavery in their state or not.

25. To leave or separate from an established country
Secession
To leave or separate from an established country

26. A way of thinking that one small group or region is most important
Sectionalism
A way of thinking that one small group or region is most important

27. Sharecropping
When multiple farmers own pieces of a large plantation

28. Slavery
When one man takes away another man’s basic rights as a human being

29. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
An abolitionist book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe addressing slavery issues

30. Union
The Northern States that stayed with the United States during the Civil War

31. War
An elongated, violent conflict between at least 2 groups of established militaries.