Civil War Vocabulary Words

Question 1

Abolition

Answer 1

A complete end to slavery

Question 2

Underground Railroad

Answer 2

Network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for escaped slaves

Question 3

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 3

Political power belongs to the people

Question 4

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 4

Outlawed slavery in the territories

Question 5

Free-Soil Party

Answer 5

Consisted of anti-slavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso

Question 6

Secede

Answer 6

Formally withdraw from the Union

Question 7

Compromise of 1850

Answer 7

An agreement that settled disputes between free states and slave states

Question 8

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 8

Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas

Question 9

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 9

An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

Established Kansas and Nebraska into two territories, allowed people to decide the issue of slavery.

Question 11

Republican Party

Answer 11

Political party who opposed the spread of slavery

Question 12

Confederate States of America

Answer 12

Southern states that would leave the Union

Question 13

Border States

Answer 13

Are slave states that would join the Union

Question 14

Cotton Diplomacy

Answer 14

Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed southern cotton

Question 15

Ironclads

Answer 15

Warships heavenly armored with iron

Question 16

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 16

Lincoln’s order to free the slaves in Confederate States

Question 17

Total War

Answer 17

Destroying civilian and economic resources