Civil War Through 1900: Vocabulary

Students interact with vocabulary words that they will encounter throughout Unit 6: Civil War Through 1900.

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Attributions

The tensions continued to grow between free states and slaves states, between the industrial North and the agricultural South, between those who wanted a stronger central government and those who put their state’s interests first. The United States was heading towards a serious division.

Objective

Learn vocabulary related to the Civil War and the later nineteenth century.

The U.S. Civil War

This lesson builds your vocabulary with words you will use in this unit. The words are:

abolition: actions to end slavery
amendment: an official change made to a legal document, such as a contract or a constitution
assimilation: a process in which a minority group adopts the majority group’s values, behaviors, and beliefs
civil war: a war between two different groups or regions of the same country
civilian: a person who is not in the military or a member of a police force
compromise: an agreement between two sides where each side gives up something that it wanted
federal: a government where power is shared between a national, centralized government and smaller state governments; the federal government refers to the national government
innovation: a new way of doing something, usually for the better
invention: the development of a new, unique device
reservation: special land set aside for American Indians to live on
secession: the withdrawal of a state from the union
sectionalism: state’s concern for regional needs instead of national interests
segregation: the separation of people based on race, religion, ethnicity, or gender
sharecropping: a system of farming in which families farm small plots of land and pay the landowner with some of the crop grown
suffrage: the right to vote
tariff: a tax on imports or exports of goods

Several of the words on this vocabulary list appeared in earlier units as well. Let’s see how well you remember what they mean.

1. Which of the following words is a synonym of compromise?

A) disagreement
B) complaint
C) trade-off
D) sudden major change

2. Which of the following belongs to the federal government?

A) the Atlantic Ocean
B) Yellowstone National Park
C) the University of Texas campus
D) Chicago O’Hare International Airport

3. Which of the following words means “a change made to a law or formal agreement”?

A) abolition
B) innovation
C) secession
D) amendment

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