Civil War Vocab

Question 1

Shutting off of an area. Troops or ships keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

Answer 1

blockade

Question 2

Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy during the Civil War

Answer 2

Anaconda Plan

Question 3

first major battle of the Civil War, fought near Manassas Junction Virginia, on July 21, 1861

Answer 3

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 4

Civil war battle fought in 1862 near Sharpsburg, Maryland, which was an important victory for the Union

Answer 4

Battle of Antietam

Question 5

Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, that gave the union control of the Mississippi River

Answer 5

Battle of Vicksburg

Question 6

method of warfare that involves civilians as targets designed to destroy the opposing army and the people’s will to fight

Answer 6

Total War

Question 7

killing of a political or government leader

Answer 7

assassination

Question 8

period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the southern states rejoined the union

Answer 8

reconstruction

Question 9

amendment to the United States constitution that abolished slavery

Answer 9

13th Amendment

Question 10

laws that denied African Americans many civil rights

Answer 10

black codes

Question 11

federal agency set up in 1865 that provided food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the south

Answer 11

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 12

amendment to the US constitution, ratified in 1868, that gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law

Answer 12

14th Amendment

Question 13

law that requires men of a certain age to serve in the military, if called

Answer 13

draft

Question 14

statement issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate states (which were still at war with the union)

Answer 14

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 15

Union victory over Confederate forces in 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that was a turning point in the Civil War

Answer 15

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 16

Civil war speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 16

Gettysburg Address

Question 17

amendment to the US constitution, ratified in 1870, that gave male citizens of all races the right to vote

Answer 17

15th Amendment

Question 18

bringing charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives

Answer 18

impeachment

Question 19

laws passed in the south after reconstruction enforcing the segregation of blacks and whites

Answer 19

Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

separation of people of different races

Answer 20

segregation

Question 21

system of farming where farmers rent land and paid the landowner with a share of the crops they raise or grow

Answer 21

sharecropping