1. Chapter 12 Vocabulary Secede Emancipation Proclamation Arsenals
Reconstruction
Abolitionist
Black Codes
State’s Rights
Amendments
Unionists
Blockade
Confederacy
Sharecropper
Battle of Palmito Ranch

2. Secede ~ to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to
These states left the United States starting in 1861.

3. Arsenals~ storehouse for weapons

4. Abolitionist~ a person who wanted to end slavery

5. State’s Rights ~ the idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government

6. Unionists ~ people loyal to the Union (USA) during the Civil War

7. Confederacy ~ the group of southern states who seceded from (left) the Union (USA) during the Civil War

8. Battle of Palmito Ranch ~ the last battle of the Civil War

9. Emancipation Proclamation ~ President Lincoln’s speech declaring slaves in the USA free

10. Black Codes ~ limited the rights of African Americans

11. Reconstruction ~ the federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War

12. Amendments ~ formal changes to a document

13. Blockade~ the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

14. Sharecropper~ a far worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown