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Civil War Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The belief that there are differences among various human races | racism |
| bias, discrimination, prejudice | racism |
| Law temporarily imposed by state or national military forces when civil aruthority has broken down or during wartime military operations | martial law |
| To free form restraint, influence, or the like | emancipate |
| discharge, release, unchain | emancipate |
| A person who is not on active duty with a fighting organization | civilians |
| noncombatant, unhostile | civilians |
| Forced miliitary service | draft |
| allotment, call of duty | draft |
| To put off until a future time | defer |
| hold off, put off, suspend | defer |
| A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment | habeas corpus |
| Ships heavily armored with iron | ironclads |
| Escaped slaves | contrabands |
| Midwesterners that supported the South and opposed abolition | copperheads |
| Act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place to isolate it from help and supplies | siege |
| blockade, pester, plague | siege |
| Destroying civilian and economic resources and preventing soldiers from fighting | total war |
| A member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, or capture | casualty |
| sufferer, victim | casualty |
| To cut off (all or part of a limb of the body), as by surgery | amputate |
| cut away, dismember, seperate | amputate |