1. Civil War Erupts Vocabulary Copy the vocabulary and the definitions on a piece of paper.

2. Fort Sumter Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War Began

3. Secede to withdraw from or split away from The South seceded from the Union when Lincoln was elected president

4. Confederacy What the states that had seceded called themselves

5. Jefferson Davis Elected president of the Confederacy

6. Robert E. Lee Main commander of the Confederate army

7. Border States States between the North and the South - Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland

8. Washington D.C. Capital of the Union

9. Richmond, Virginia Capital of the Confederacy

10. Abraham Lincoln President of the Union

11. King Cotton Cotton was the most important agricultural product in the South. The South made a great deal of money on exporting cotton

12. Anaconda Plan Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply the troops Named after a big snake

14. blockade an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force The Union tried to blockade the Confederacy