1. CIVIL WAR VOCABULARY Word Definition
Sectionalism
Loyalty to a part of the nation, but not the nation as a whole.
States’ Rights
The struggle between the Federal government and the state governments over the power to make their own laws.
Fugitive
A slave that had escaped from his / her owner.
Emancipate
To set free from something
The Union
Another name for the United States. During the Civil War, the northern states were considered “the Union”.
The Confederacy
A collection of 11 slave states that seceded from the U.S. to form its own country.
Abolition
Completely do away with something, for example: slavery.

2. CIVIL WAR VOCABULARY Word Definition
Sectionalism
_____________ to a _____ of the nation, but not the nation as a ____________.
States’ Rights
The struggle between the ________ government and the state ______________ over the ________ to make their own _____.
Fugitive
A _____________ that had ____________ from his / her owner.
Emancipate
To set ______________ from something
The Union
Another name for the United States. During the Civil War, the _______________ states were considered “the Union”.
The Confederacy
A collection of ___ ________states that seceded from the U.S. to form its own ________________.
Abolition
Completely ___ __________with something, for example: slavery.

3. SECTIONALISM
 As the United States moved closer to civil war, the country divided more and more. Sectionalism became a problem. This is the loyalty to a part of a nation, but not the nation as a whole. Americans saw themselves as Southerners or Northerners. People who lived in different parts of the country often disagreed. This was true even in Congress. Sectionalism began to grow early in the 1800s, right after the War of As more factories were built, the South and the North grew further apart. When more people moved to the West, the country began to divide in this way, too. People in the North were busy building new factories. They were also working in textile mills. People in the North favored a tariff that would help their businesses. A tariff is a tax that made goods that came from outside of the United States cost more. The tariff would make goods from Europe cost more than goods made in America. People in the South did not like the tariff. In the South there were a lot of farms. There were not a lot of factories. The tariff would not help them. The South would have to pay more money for the things that they bought. This made them very unhappy.

4. STATES’ RIGHTS
States’ Rights refers to the struggle between the federal government and individual states over the power to make their own laws. In the Civil War era, this struggle focused heavily on the issue of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to control or even abolish slavery within an individual state. The northern and southern states had very different opinions about the rights of the federal government, thus widened the growing problems within the nation.

5. FUGITIVE
After the county had been divided into free states and slave states, some slaves that had escaped from their owners (fugitive slaves) thought they would be free once they entered a free state. But things did not work out that way. Because of the Fugitive Slave Laws, if they were captured, they were returned. There were several fugitive slave laws enacted prior to 1865, some by individual states and some by the federal government. States trying to help fugitive slaves would find their laws overturned by the court, mostly because of the U.S. Constitution.

6. EMANCIPATE
If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

7. The UNION
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it. The Union was opposed by 11 southern slave states (or 13, according to the Southern view and one western territory) that formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy" or "the South".

8. The CONFEDERACY
The Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy, was a collection of 11 southern slave states that seceded (broke away) from the United States in 1860 and formed its own country following the election of President Abraham Lincoln. The 11 states were Led by Jefferson Davis and existed from 1861 to 1865,

9. ABOLITION
The abolition of something is to completely do away with it. For example: Slavery.