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Civil War Vocab Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

bounty

b)

flank

c)

border state

d)

ironclad

2.

to formally join a military force

a)

enlist

b)

casualty

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

entrench

3.

a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

a)

ironclad

b)

draft

c)

bounty

d)

total war

4.

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

a)

enlist

b)

flank

c)

draft

d)

casualty

5.

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

a)

habeas corpus

b)

bounty

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

resistance

6.

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

a)

border state

b)

habeas corpus

c)

enlist

d)

draft

7.

a system of selecting people for required military service

a)

draft

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

bounty

d)

entrench

8.

reward or payment

a)

enlist

b)

ironclad

c)

flank

d)

bounty

9.

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

a)

entrench

b)

flank

c)

reistance

d)

total war

10.

the side or edge of a military formation

a)

enlist

b)

flank

c)

resistance

d)

total war

11.

refusal to give in

a)

enlist

b)

ironclad

c)

casualty

d)

resistance

12.

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

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

ironclad

c)

total war

d)

habeas corpus