Civil War Vocabulary Matching Activity - Set of 20

This matching activity allows students to learn Civil War vocabulary terms in a fun way! You can use these vocabulary flash cards in 2 different ways! You can cut them all out separately and play a matching game with the terms and definitions or you can make them double sided cards with the term on one side and the definition on the other! Included vocabulary terms: abolitionist, tariff, sectionalism, secession, Underground Railroad, Civil War, draft, emancipation, popular sovereignty, confederacy, telegraph, total war, Reconstruction,assassination, Freedman's bureau, impeach, sharecropping, Jim Crow, segregation and discrimination.

Includes:

- 20 vocabulary terms

- 20 definition

This vocabulary matching activity covers Georgia Performance Standards:

SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.

a. Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.

b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.

c. Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.

d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

SS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.

a. Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

b. Explain the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

c. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-Americans were prevented from exercising their newly won rights; include a discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs.

I hope you and your students enjoy this matching activity!

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