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SS Chapter 15
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a border state? | slave state that did not secede |
| What is neutral? | not favoring either side |
| What is a martial law? | type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended |
| What is a blockade? | military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it |
| What is an ironclad? | warships covered with protective iron plates |
| What is a casualty? | military term for person killed wounded or missing in action |
| What is an emancipation? | to be free |
| What is a habeas corpus? | constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
| What is a draft? | system of required military service |
| What is an income tax? | tax on the money people recieve |
| What is an inflation? | general rise in prices |
| What is a siege? | attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender |
| What is a total war? | all-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army its resources and its people's will to fight |