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Civil War Erupts
Vocabulary
Copy the vocabulary and the definitions
on a piece of paper.
Fort Sumter
• Fort in South
Carolina where
the Civil War
Began
Secede
• to withdraw from or
split away from
• The South seceded
from the Union
when Lincoln was
elected president
Confederacy
• What the states
that had seceded
called themselves
Jefferson Davis
• Elected
president of
the
Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
• Main commander
of the
Confederate army
Border States
• States between the North and the
South - Missouri, Kentucky, and
Maryland
Washington D.C.
• Capital of the Union
Richmond, Virginia
• Capital of the Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln
• President of
the Union
King Cotton
• Cotton was the most important
agricultural product in the South.
• The South made a great deal of
money on exporting cotton
Anaconda Plan
• Union plan to cut the South in half
making it difficult to supply the
troops
• Named after a big snake
blockade
• an effort to cut off food, supplies,
war material or communications
from a particular area by force
• The Union tried to blockade the
Confederacy