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Class
Date
Vocabulary Builder
The Civil War
Section 1
border states
cotton diplomacy
Abraham Lincoln
Winfield Scott
Fort Sumter
DIRECTIONS Use the five vocabulary words from the word list to write
a summary of what you learned in the section.
DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and fill in the blank with the word in
the word pair that best completes the sentence.
1. The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate troops began to fire on
. (border states/Fort Sumter)
2. Union General
planned to destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade of southern ports. (Abraham Lincoln/Winfield Scott)
3. The South tried to win foreign allies through
.
(border states/cotton diplomacy)
4. In his inaugural address,
promised not to end slavery
where it existed. (Abraham Lincoln/Winfield Scott)
5. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were
that did not join the Confederacy. (border states/cotton diplomacy)
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