Ch 18 Vocabulary

A system of selecting people for required military service.

• Enlist

• Draft

• flank

The side or edge of a military formation

• resistance

• ironclad

• flank

A damaged frigate that was abandoned by the Union, that the confederates took and turned into an ironclad ship renamed the Virginia.

• The Merrimack

• Total War

• Greenbacks

To formally join a military force.

• Enlist

• Tributary

• Bounty

A state on the border between the North and the South

• Bounty

• Greenbacks

• Border State

A stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river.

• Ironclad

• Tributary

• Entrench

Paper money issued by the United States Government especially the North during the Civil War.

• Draft

• Greenbacks

• Total War

A reward or punishment

• Casualty

• Draft

• Bounty

A soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or goes missing during battle.

• Ironclad

• Casualty

• Entrench

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

• Habeus Corpus

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Total War