Civil War Erupts Vocabulary Copy the vocabulary and the definitions on a piece of paper

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