8th Grade Vocabulary Unit 10: The Civil War

Definition: a state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

• Deep South

• The North

• border states

• frontier states

Definition: a careful plan or method

• strategy

• program

• itinerary

• agenda

Definition: to formally join a military force

• roster

• muster

• enlist

• volunteer

Definition: a stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river

• delta

• oxbow

• channel

• tributary

Definition: a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

• destroyer

• frigate

• battleship

• ironclad

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

• fatalist

• casualty

• mortally

• injured

Definition: the freeing of slaves

• liberation

• naturalizing

• emancipation

• enumeration

Definition: the decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion on January, 1863

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Congressional Liberation Act

• African American Naturalization Act

• Enumeration Proclamation

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

• bounty

• habeas corpus

• proclamation

• afidavit

Definition: a system of selecting people for required service in the military

• enscript

• enlist

• subscript

• draft