Vocabulary
A barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area
Blockade
the right of each U.S. state to make its own laws
States' Rights
Underground Railroad
a method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender
Total War
Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money
carpetbaggers
An official announcement
proclamation
A large farm, especially in southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop
Plantation
the act of wanting to end or abolish something, such as slavery
abolitionist
Siege
the power a president has to override a decision made by congress
veto
To enter the armed forces
Enlist
Together, the Southern states that left the U.S. and formed their own nation
Confederacy
The United States, also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War
Union
The group of representatives that make up the legislative branch of government
congress
a change or imporovement
amendment
the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War
Juneteenth
an agreement reached by having both sides give up some demands
compromise
To murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons
Assassinate
a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else "rent" the to farm it
sharecropping
the period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the U.S. after the Civil War
Reconstruction
The freeing of a group from slavery
Emancipation
the seperation of a state from the nation
secession
the division of groups of people, usually by race
segregation
the bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives
Impeachment
a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African Americans the right to vote, kept African Americans from owning guns or taking certain types of jobs
black codes