Vocabulary Review Boys' War

Laws against the tignon were futile.

• useless

• helpful

• way of speaking

• to destroy by cutting off a needed part.

Devel's Backbone was a landmark.

• swamp

• landscape

• serious or solemn

• real or truth

Cass was transfixed by their guests.

• foot

• way of speaking

• Fascinated; held motionless

Slavery was abolished.

• to get rid or or remove

• owning another person

• foot

• lacking knowledge

Many boys wanted to enlist.

• to join; to sign up to serve in the military

• simple or not developed

• Having to do with farming.

The boy soldiers were naive.

• lacking knowledge

• console or comfort

• able, can or able to

Dr. Hutchings' sons found the expedition exciting

• foot

• headdress

• to breakaway

Vocabulary word for this definition:

owning another person.

• foot

• slavery

• abolished

The Pruitt's dialect was different from Delphine's.

• way of speaking

• useless

• against

• assistance or help given in time if needed

Vocabulary word for this definition:

The process of getting someone to join a group.

• Union

• industrial

• recruitment