Civil War Vocab Review

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

• bounty

• flank

• border state

• ironclad

to formally join a military force

• enlist

• casualty

• Emancipation Proclamation

• entrench

a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

• ironclad

• draft

• bounty

• total war

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

• enlist

• flank

• draft

• casualty

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

• habeas corpus

• bounty

• Emancipation Proclamation

• resistance

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

• border state

• habeas corpus

• enlist

• draft

a system of selecting people for required military service

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• bounty

• entrench

reward or payment

• enlist

• ironclad

• flank

• bounty

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

• entrench

• flank

• reistance

• total war

the side or edge of a military formation

• enlist

• flank

• resistance

• total war