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Civil War Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ironclad | armored ship |
| Total War | conflict that involves all the people and resources of a society |
| Conscripted | drafted |
| Freedmen | freed slaves |
| March to the Sea | The United States army marched from Atlanta to the Atlantic and destroyed Southern Property |
| Blockade | use of naval forces to stop shipping |
| Emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| Jefferson Davis | The first and only President of the Confederate States of America |
| Forage | to take supplies wherever they could be found |
| Inflation | period when prices rise rapidly and money buys less |
| Casualty | people killed, wounded, captured, or missing |
| Robert E Lee | General of the Confederate Army |
| Anaconda Plan | Blockade all ports in the Confederate States, Divide the South by taking control of the Mississippi River, Control the Tennessee Valley and march through Georgia to the coast |
| Ulysses S Grant | Union general who defeated Robert E Lee to end the Civil War |
| William T Sherman | Union general who led the “march to the sea |