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Chapter 17 vocab
Civil War Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Border states | Kentucky, Maryland,Missouri, and Deleware (wavered between the North and the South) |
Martial Law | rule by army |
Virginia | Confederate war ship |
Monitor | Union War ship |
emancipate | to free |
Emancipation Proclamation | A proclamation to free slaves in the Confederacy (didn't actually work) |
54th Massachusetts Regiment | A regiment that accepted slaves from all over the North |
Fort Wagner | 54th Regiment led an attack there and almost half the regiment was killed |
Copperheads | People who supported the civil war |
draft | law that requires people at a certain age to join the army |
habeas corpus | the right to be charged or have a hearing before being jailed |
income tax | a tax on people's earnings |
inflation | a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money |
Profiteers | a person who took advantage of a disaster to make money |
siege | a military encirclement of an enemy position and blockading or bombarding it in order to force it to surrender |
Pickett's charge | failed Confederate charge at the battle of Gettysburg |
Gettysburg Address | speech made by President Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg |
total war | All- out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers |
Appomattox Court House | Virginian town where Lee's army stayed |