Ch. 17 Vocabulary

reward or payment

• resistance

• flank

• casualty

• bounty

decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion on January 1, 1863

• habeas corpus

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• total war

paper money issued by the United States government

• greenback

• tributary

• entrench

• ironclad

a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military

• habeas corpus

• total war

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

refusal to give in

• greenback

• bounty

• resistance

• border state

place, within a trench, or ditch, for defense; place, in a strong defensive position

• casualty

• entrench

• ironclad

• greenback

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

• tributary

• entrench

• casualty

• ironclad

to formally join a military force

• enlist

• flank

• greenback

• ironclad

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

• entrench

• border state

• tributary

• greenback

stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river

• casualty

• greenback

• tributary

• ironclad