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Civil War Vocab
Terms and people for chapter 9
Term | Definition |
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1. Ironclads | Armored ships |
2. Freedman | Former slaves who often served as soldiers |
3. Confederate States of America | Southern states that seceded from the Union |
4. Conscripted | drafted - when someone is forced to join the military |
5. Emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
6. Casualties | People killed, wounded, captured or missing |
7. Blockade | Use of a naval force to stop shipping; what the North did to Southern Ports |
8 . Border States | Slave states between the deep South and the Northern states |
9. Total War | involves all the people and resources of a society |
10. The Hunley | a Confederate submarine that sunk the the Union ship Housatonic. The first submarine to successfully sink a ship. |
11. Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
12. Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederate States of America who was from Virginia |
13. Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who captured Vicksburg, Mississippi successfully cutting the Confederacy in two (The Anaconda Plan) |
14. William T. Sherman | Union Colonel who led a march through the South |
15. Robert Smalls | A slave who planned the heist of of "The Planter", a Confederate ship that was surrendered to the Union Navy. |
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