Chapter 16 Vocabulary

Blockade

• Using naval vessels to prevent any shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports.
• A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• To break apart or fall down suddenly
• The force enrollment of people into military service.

Collapse

• To break apart or fall down suddenly
• A coarse, loosely woven, homemade fabric.
• The civilian world in wartime.
• As a whole or in general.

Compensate

• To make payment for something.
• To cause something to continue without changing.
• A coarse, loosely woven, homemade fabric.
• political system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

Confederacy

• A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• income
• To cause something to continue without changing.
• The civilian world in wartime.

Conscription

• The force enrollment of people into military service.
• As a whole or in general.
• The civilian world in wartime.
• To make payment for something.

Emancipation

• the act of giving someone freedom
• The civilian world in wartime.
• A local law or piece of legislation.
• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories

Federalsim

• political system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
• Using naval vessels to prevent any shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports.
• To cause something to continue without changing.
• To break apart or fall down suddenly

Home Front

• The civilian world in wartime.
• A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories
• personal liberties and freedoms

Homespun

• A coarse, loosely woven, homemade fabric.
• the act of giving someone freedom
• A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• Call troops together for inspection.

Individual Rights

• personal liberties and freedoms
• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories
• The force enrollment of people into military service.
• To break apart or fall down suddenly