Chaoter 11 Flashcards
Slave states that didn’t secede
Border states
Not favoring either side
Neutral
A type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens’ rights are suspended
Martial Law
A military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it
Blockade
Warships covered with protective iron plates
Ironclads
Replaced McDowell after the union’s defeat at Bull Run, good at organizing, very cautious, had to retreat from Richmond
George McClellan
Military term for people wounded, killed, or missing in action
Casualties
Union general who led most successful of armies, defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Shiloh, troops gained control of the Mississippi River under his command
Ulysses S. Grant
Emancipation
To free enslaved people
An abolitionist newspaper publisher
Horace Greeley
A constitutional protection against unlawful i prison et
Habeas corpus
A system of required military service
Draft
A tax on the money people recieve
Income tax
General rise in prices
Inflation
An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender
Siege