Chapter 15 Vocabulary and Key People

Question 1

neutral

Answer 1

or not favoring either side

Question 2

martial law

Answer 2

this type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens’ rights are suspended

Question 3

blockade

Answer 3

is a military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it

Question 4

ironclad

Answer 4

these were warships covered with protective iron plates

Question 5

George Mcllellan

Answer 5

Union general- good organizer, but very cautious, Battle of Antietam (Union victory due to Lee’s retreat)

Question 6

casualty

Answer 6

the military term for persons killed, wounded, or missing in action

Question 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

Union general- took chances, successful in battle, The Battle of Shiloh (Union victory)

Question 8

emancipate

Answer 8

or free the slaves

Question 9

Horace Greeley

Answer 9

abolitionist newspaper publisher who Lincoln wrote a letter to expressing that his goal was to restore the Union, not, free the slaves

Question 10

habeas corpus

Answer 10

is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Question 11

draft

Answer 11

a system of required military service

Question 12

income tax

Answer 12

is a tax on the money people receive

Question 13

inflation

Answer 13

or a general rise in prices

Question 14

siege

Answer 14

is an attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender

Question 15

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 15

Union general- tough soldier, his Atlantic capture gave Lincoln’s reelection a boost, he believed in total war

Question 16

total war

Answer 16

all out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy’s army, its resources, and its peoples will to fight

Question 17

border state

Answer 17

slave states that did not secede