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Civil War Vocab1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of negro slavery |
| Artillery | large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars |
| Assassination | murder of a prominent person such as President Abraham Lincoln |
| Battery | unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed |
| Battle | large scale combat between two armed forces |
| Blockade | closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication |
| Border State | slave owning states that did not secede from the union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri |
| Cartridge Box | a leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets |
| Casualty | a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war |
| Cavalry | soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit |