Civil War Vocabulary

Question 1

Armory

Answer 1

Storehouse for weapons

Question 2

Assimilate

Answer 2

Adopt the manner and language of a country

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

Violent conflicts between settlers (200 died)

Question 4

Blockade-runners

Answer 4

Fast southern ships

Question 5

Border states

Answer 5

States immediately north of the confederation

Question 6

Clipper

Answer 6

Quick tail boat

Question 7

Commander

Answer 7

Seize or take over property

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Answer 8

1. CA free
2. NM &UT popular sovereignty
3. Pay Texas (for NM)
4. D.C ends slave trade & keeps slavery

Question 9

Confederacy

Answer 9

The group of states that has seceded form the United States

Question 10

Conscription

Answer 10

Mandatory military service (drafting)

Question 11

Copperheads

Answer 11

Peace democrats

Question 12

Cotton gin

Answer 12

Eli whitney’s engine for removing seeds from cotton

Question 13

Discrimination

Answer 13

Mistreatment based on race sex or religion

Question 14

Dred Scott decision

Answer 14

Saves have to legal rights

Slaver are property

Question 15

Emancipation

Answer 15

Free

Question 16

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 16

January 1, 1863 : presidential deceleration naming all slaves in seceded states “free forever”

Question 17

Free-spoil party

Answer 17

Free soil speech labor and men

Question 18

Fugitive

Answer 18

A run away from the law.

Question 19

Habeas corpus

Answer 19

Court order trial before jail

Question 20

Immigrant

Answer 20

Person that comes from another country

Question 21

Ironclad

Answer 21

Iron-plated ship

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska act

Answer 22

Popular sovereignty for slaves issue in KS and NE

Question 23

Labor union

Answer 23

Workers organized to improve working conditions

Question 24

Martial law

Answer 24

Military rules with suspended rights and freedoms

Question 25

Nativist

Answer 25

Someone who distrusts mistreats immigrants

Question 26

Oppression

Answer 26

Feeling weighed down by unfair treatments

Question 27

Patent

Answer 27

Legal right to make use or sell on invention

Question 28

Popular sovereignty

Answer 28

Rule by the people

Question 29

Raid on harpers ferry

Answer 29

John brown and his followers attempt to steal weapons from a federal armory and start a slave revolution

Question 30

Rebels

Answer 30

Confederation army

Question 31

Republican

Answer 31

Party of Lincoln;keep slavery out of the territories

Question 32

Royalty

Answer 32

Payment for use of a patented product

Question 33

Abolitionist

Answer 33

People who want to end slavery