Civil War Vocab 1-26
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ausmussophei1 on October 5, 2011
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here is the civil war vocabulary for the quiz in history on 10-6-11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abolitionist | a person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery |
| artillery | large, powerful weapons such as a cannons and mortars |
| assassination | the murder of a prominent person such as President Lincoln |
| battery | a unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed |
| battle | large-scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer) |
| blockade | the closing off, using naval forces, of city or other area to traffic and communication |
| border state | slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri |
| cartridge box | a leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets |
| casualty | a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war |
| cavalry | soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit |
| chloroform | the liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers in the war |
| CSA | the alliance of 11 Southern states to form the Confederate States of America |
| contraband | goods illegally traded during wartime slaves were sometimes called contraband during the war |
| copperhead | a Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war |
| deploy | to spread out armies to create a battle line |
| desertion | to leave one's military post, or run away from battle, often punishable death |
| dixie | slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular Southern song |
| draft or conscription | the selection of citizens for mandatory military service |
| drill | the process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit |
| dysentery | an often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps |
| envelopment | an attack against the flanks of an enemy's army, in hopes of eventually encircling it |
| emancipation | the formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863 |
| flanks | the sides of an army's line in battle a flanking movement is attacking the sides |
| forage | the search of food by soldiers often at the expense of farmer in the battle area |
| greenback | paper money used during the Civil War in the north |
| hardtack | a quarter-inch or half-inch thick hard cracker eaten by Civil War soldiers also known as biscuits, crackers, and army bread |
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