Ch.15
a person who is not in the military
What is a Civilian?
the death rate
What is Mortality?
to join
What is Enlist?
a cliff
What is a Bluff?
to organize and prepare troops for war
What is Mobilize?
foot soldiers
What is an Infantry?
to leave a location, usually for one's own protection
What is Evacuate?
a certificate offered for sale to the public with the promise that the government will pay the money back at a later date
What is Bond?
a powerful painkiller
What is Morphine?
a small, fast ship carrying mounted guns
What is a Gunboat?
army troops who fight on horseback
What is a Cavalry?
a battle strategy that uses a system of ditches to give soldiers a protected place from which to fire during battle
What is Trench Warfare?
the right of an arrested person to be brought before a judge before going to jail
What is Habeas Corpus?
a person who has served in the military
What is a veteran?
an 1863 document issued by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves living in Confederate-held territory during the American Civil War
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
a ship armoured with iron plates to protect it from cannon fire
What is an Ironclad Ship?
someone who actively promotes human welfare
What is a Philanthropist?
a law instituted by the Union in 1863 stating that men between the ages of 20 and 45 years of age were liable to be drafted into the military but they could pay $300 to avoid service
What is the Conscription Act?
the effort to rebuild and reunite the United States following the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
an act that replaced the notes of individual banks with unified national currency
What is the Legal Tender Act?
a military strategy during the Civil War in which the North planned to set up a blockade around the southern coast to ruin the South's economy and secure ports on the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?
at the time of the Civil War, a state that bordered both Union and Confederate states, namely Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, and West Virginia
What is a Border State?
a small fleet
What is a Flotilla?
an act that started a program of public grants to small farmers
What is the Homestead Act?
a portable, cylindrical float used to build a temporary bridge
What is a Pontoon?