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Civil War Vocab.
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| secede | withdraw from the Union |
| copperheads | Northerner who opposed fighting to keep the South in the Union |
| emancipate | to set free |
| border states | the North and South were divided. this led to border states. the border states that stayed in the Union were Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland. Border states that stayed in the Confederacy were Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tenness |
| conscription | Enrolling people into the military |
| profiteer | person who takes advantage of an emergency to make money |
| civilians | people not in the military |
| bounties | payments given to men who joined the Union army. |
| tax-in-kind | Tax paid with goods or items rather than with money |
| habeas corpus | right to have charges filed or a trial before being jailed. |
| skrimish | a minor fight in war incidential to a larger movement |
| daguerreotype | An early photograph produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate and developed in mercury |
| blockade runners | a ship or a person who runs through a blockade |
| siege | A: military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender. B: a persistent or serious attack (as of illness). |
| martial law | The law applied in occupied territory by the military authority of the occupying power; the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency when the civilian law enforcement agencies are unable to maintain public order |
| privateers | merchant or sailing ships outfitted with cannons |
| total war | destroying the enemy's ability to fight |
| Johnny Reb | Nickname for a Confederate soldier |
| Pook Turtles | Nickname given to seven ironclad Union gunboats designed by Samuel M. Pook |
| muster | to bring together military recruits |
| Billy Yank | Nickname for a Union soldier |
| antiseptic | anything that kills germs |
| anesthetic | anything that relives pain |
| flank | the ends of the army |
| minie ball | A rifle bullet with a conical head used in muzzle-loading firearms. |
| cavalry | soldiers on horseback that are sometimes referred to as "the eyes of the army" |
| infantry | soldiers on foot that march to place to place |
| artillery | the army's cannons and heavy guns. |
| a score | twenty years |
| casualty | A military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action. the defintion may depend on the reporter's resorce of information. |
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