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Chapter 14 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Border States | The slave states that did not secede, along with the western counties |
Blockade | the use of naval forces to stop shipping |
Raiders | The Confederate Navy used swift, lightly armed ships |
Ironclads | , armored vessels, and even a submarine to sink the Union’s wooden ships and open the ports |
Conscription | draft |
Blockade Runners | fast ships that were supposed to be able to outrun the naval ships, to bring in goods and supplies. |
Hunley | left the dock in Charleston with a crew of eight. |
Casualties | those killed or wounded, |
Emancipation Proclamation. | The proclamation stated that after January 1, 1863, “all persons held as slaves within any States . . . in rebellion against the United States shall be . . . forever free.” |
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