Vocabulary
What is entrench?
What many women did while their husbands were away fighting.
What is kept farms and businesses going?
What the the political scene was like during the war, was especially amongst Northern Democrats.
What is divided?
The name given to Northern Money because of its color.
What are Greenbacks?
What is worked as nurses?
The side that suffered more from shortages and damaged land during the war.
What is the Confederates or South?
Sums of money that were paid to encourage volunteers to fight.
What is a bounty?
What some women did to help gain information about the opposing side.
What is worked as a spy?
When women and children broke into stores to get food.
What were the Bread Riots?
A law requiring able-bodied, white men between 18 and 35 to serve in the military.
What is a draft?
She convinced government officials to let women work as nurses on the battlefield.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
The nickname for the Peace Democrats.
What is/were Copperheads?
A legal proceeding that protects against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus?
She was famous for her work with wounded soldiers.
Who was Clara Barton?
What both economies experienced but the South saw a higher rate of.
What is inflation?