Civil War Vocabulary

To close the Southern ports.

• Blockade
• casualty
• habeas corpus
• siege

Person killed our wounded in a war.

• Blockade
• casualty
• habeas corpus
• siege

Protection against unlawful imprisonment.

• Blockade
• casualty
• habeas corpus
• siege

Blockade of an area that prevents food and supplies from entering.

• Blockade
• casualty
• habeas corpus
• siege

The refusal to accept or comply with something.

• draft
• ironclad
• border states
• resistance

Slave states that did not secede from the Union .

• draft
• ironclad
• border states
• resistance

Steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates.

• draft
• ironclad
• border states
• resistance

Required all able-bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve for three years in the military

• draft
• ironclad
• border states
• resistance

Money printed for the North

• greenback
• total war
• entrench
• export

Systematic destruction of an entire area.

• greenback
• total war
• entrench
• export