Vocabulary 1
Also called the confederacy or the states (by northers). The ____ included states that separated from the United States in order to form their own nation. EX. Texas, Georgia, Alabama, ETC.
Also called the Union or the United States, stayed loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War. Some examples are: Connecticut, Delaware and Illinois, ect.
The North
New soldiers
Recruits
Loyal to the Confederacy, also called a confedeare or southerner.
Rebel
A branch of the military in which soilders traveled by foot
Infantry
A large group of soldiers led by a general.
Brigade
A branch of military mounted on horseback
Cavalry of the cavalry
Withdraw from the Federal governemtn of the United States/Union. Southern states voted to separate from the Union. Southerners saw secession as legal, and Northerners saw secession as rebellion.
Secession
Reconstruction
To rush an enemy
Charge
Lowest rank in the military
Private
A Northerner
Yankee
A minor fight
Skirmish
A boundary line that marked the divide between Norhtern and Southern states.
Mason-Dixon-Line
Escaped slaves who fled to the Union for protection.
Castabounds
Loyal to the Confederacy/south also called a rebel.
Confederate
Northerner opposed to the war.
Copperhead
A practice in which African Americans were owned by others, usually white people and forced to labor.
Slavery
Freedom from slavery.
Emancipation
A unit of soliders
Battery
An unexpected attack
Ambush
Admit defeat and give up in the face of overwhelming odds.
Surrender
Approve
Ratify
Loyal to the government of the United States, also knows as the Union, Yankees, or the North.
Federal
Blockade