Vocab 1
At the time of the civil war, a state that bordered both union and confederate states Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, and West Virginia
Border State
Army troop who fought on horseback
Calvary
To leave a location, usually for one's own protection
Evacuate
Foot soldiers
Infantry
To organize and prepare troops for war
Mobilize
A person who is not in the military
Civilian
A ship armored with iron plates to protect it from cannon fire
Ironclad ship
An act the replaced the notes of individual banks with unified national currency
Legal Tender Act
Someone who actively promotes human welfare
philanthropist
The authority to enforce laws within a given area
Jurisdiction
An 1863 document issued by Abraham lincoln that freed all slaves living in confederate held in territory during American civil war
Emancipation Proclamation
A law instituted by the union in 1863 stating that men between the ages 20 and 45 years of age were liable to be drafted into the military but can pay $300 to avoid service
Conscription Act
The state of being enslaved
Servitude
The right of an arrested person to be brought before a judge before going to jail
Habeas Corpus
A release from obligations
Exemption
A certification offered for sale to the public with the promise that the government will pay the money back at a later date
Bond
A small fleet
Flotilla
A portable cylinder float used to build temporary bridge
Pontoon
An individual or group blamed for the mistakes or faults of others
Scapegoat
A battle strategy that uses a system of ditches to give soldiers a protected place from which to fire during battle
trench Warfare
A military strategy during a civil war which in the North planned to set up a blockade around the southern coast to ruin the south's economy and secure ports of the Mississippi river
anaconda plan
An act that started a program of public land grants to small farmers
Homestead Act
A situation in which neither side in a conflict is able to win
Stalemate
A war in which all rules and laws of war are ignored and all resources are used for defeating the enemy
Total war
To keep infected people away from those who haven’t yet contracted a disease
Quarantine