Civil War Vocab 2

Question 0

The murder of a prominent person such as President Lincoln

Answer 0

Assassination

Question 1

A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war

Answer 1

Copperhead

Question 2

Goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called _______________ during the war

Answer 2

Contraband

Question 3

To spread out armies to create a battle line

Answer 3

Deploy

Question 4

Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri

Answer 4

Border state

Question 5

Large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars

Answer 5

Artillery

Question 6

A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery

Answer 6

Abolishonist

Question 7

A leather box in which a solider would carry his rounds or bullets

Answer 7

Cartridge Box

Question 8

Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as an unit

Answer 8

Cavalry

Question 9

Large scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer)

Answer 9

Battle

Question 10

The liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers in the war

Answer 10

Chloroform

Question 11

The alliance of 11 Southern states to form the Confederate States of America

Answer 11

Confederacy or CSA

Question 12

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war; someone who is not able to fight in the war

Answer 12

Casualty

Question 13

A unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed

Answer 13

Battery

Question 14

The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication

Answer 14

Blockade

Question 15

To leave one’s military post, or to run away from battles, often punishable by death

Answer 15

Desertion

Question 16

Slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular Southern song

Answer 16

Dixie

Question 17

The selection of citizens for mandatory military service

Answer 17

Draft of Conscription

Question 18

The process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit

Answer 18

Drill

Question 19

An often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle sites

Answer 19

Dysentery

Question 20

An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes of eventually encircling it

Answer 20

Envelopment

Question 21

The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863

Answer 21

Emancipation

Question 22

The sides of an army’s line in battle. A ________________ movement is attacking the sides.

Answer 22

Flanks

Question 23

The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area

Answer 23

Forage

Question 24

Paper money used during the Civil War in the North

Answer 24

Greenback