Last Vocab

Question 1

Union

Answer 1

North

Question 2

Confederate

Answer 2

South

Question 3

Blockade

Answer 3

Shutting off a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Question 4

Emancipation

Answer 4

Freedom from slavery

Question 5

Proclamation

Answer 5

Official public announcement

Question 6

Draft

Answer 6

System of required service in the armed forces

Question 7

Inflation

Answer 7

A rise in prices

Question 8

Civilian

Answer 8

Person not in military

Question 9

Recruit

Answer 9

New member of armed services

Question 10

Greenback

Answer 10

Union money

Question 11

Comtraband

Answer 11

Escaped or captured slave taken in by Union army

Question 12

Habeas corpus

Answer 12

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Question 13

Copperheads

Answer 13

Northern democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the south

Question 14

Cotton diplomacy

Answer 14

Confederate effort to use cotton to persuade the British to support the south

Question 15

Border states

Answer 15

Slave states that didn’t join confederacy

Question 16

Ironclad

Answer 16

Warships heavily armored with iron

Question 17

Total war

Answer 17

Type of war in which an army destroys everything in its path

Question 18

Pickets charge

Answer 18

Failed confederate attack at the battle of Gettysburg

Question 19

Pow

Answer 19

Prisoner of war

Question 20

Martial law

Answer 20

Rule by the military