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Civil War Vocab

QuestionAnswer
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
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