EOC Pg 159-166

a brutal, lawless person

• ruffian
• ambassador
• foot soldier
• General

A new kind of warship covered with protective iron plates first used in the Civil War

• Ironclad
• Schooner
• Aircraft Carrier
• battleship

Abandoned Union warship salvaged by the Confederacy. Enforced with iron plates to become an ironclad ship. Renamed "Virginia"

• Merrimack
• Anaconda Plan
• Total War
• to spout

The name of the Union ironclad war ship

• Monitor
• The Merrimack
• The Yorktown
• The Hunley

to surround and try to capture

• lay seige to
• Blitzkreig
• Naval Blockade
• ambush

to use up or take all resources like time, money, energy, food, ammunition etc.

• to bleed dry
• ruffian
• dedication
• Ironclad

without success

• in vain
• integration
• Monitor
• infrastructure

a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

• Inflation
• ruffian
• dedication
• to bleed dry

to express (one's views or ideas) in a lengthy, empassioned, and unreflecting way.

• to spout
• to bleed dry
• to inflate
• to protest

Complete and wholehearted devotion, especially to a career, ideal, etc.

• dedication
• Ironclad
• Monitor
• ruffian