Ch.15 Vocabulary

To formally join a military force

• enlist

• Border states

• strategy

a plan of action

• Border states

• enlist

• strategy

State between the North and South that was divided over whether to remain in the Union or join the Confederacy.

• Border states

• strategy

• enlist

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

• ironclad

• casualties

• enlist

The decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion

• Habeas corpus

• casualties

• Emancipation Proclamation

a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

• ironclad

• greenbacks

• bounty

Reward or payment

• draft

• bounty

• greenbacks

A system of selecting people for required military service

• draft

• bounty

• greenbacks

Paper money issued by the United States government

• draft

• bounty

• greenbacks

an order to bring a jailed person before a judge to find out whether that person should actually be in jail

• flank

• bounty

• habeas corpus