Chapter 11 Vocabulary

states on the border between the north and the south.

• border states

• enlist

• emancipation proclamation

• draft

to formally join a military force

• resistance

• casualty

• enlist

• bounty

stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river.

• ironclad

• tributary

• greenback

• total war

a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

• iron clad

• casualty

• draft

• border states

a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle.

• habeas corpus

• greenback

• resistance

• casualty

decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those part of the Confederacy still in rebellion.

• total war

• entrench

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

a legal writ, or order, that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court.

• emanciaption proclamation

• flank

• habeas corpus

• resistance

a system of selecting people for required military service.

• draft

• bounty

• entrench

• flank

reward or payment.

• greenback

• enlist

• bounty

• tributary

paper money issued by the United States government.

• total war

• ironclad

• casualty

• greenback