Vocbulary

Question 1

Inflation

Answer 1

Cost of goods goes up while value of money goes down

Question 2

Income tax

Answer 2

Taxes on the money a person earns (their income)

Question 3

Border state

Answer 3

any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War

Question 4

Habeas Corpus

Answer 4

Right to have a trial and to know what you are being tried for

Question 5

Emancipate

Answer 5

To free someone or something

Question 6

Siege

Answer 6

When enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off supplies, with the aim of making the people surrender

Question 7

Martial law

Answer 7

Rule by army

Question 8

Copperhead

Answer 8

Northerner’s who opposed using force to keep the a South in the union

Question 9

Profiteers

Answer 9

Business owners who charged excessive prices for war goods

Question 10

Total war (when, where and by who was it used)

Answer 10

Philip Sheridan- Shenandoah Valley
Sherman- Atlanta to Savannah (March to sea)

Definition: War on an enemy’s will to fight and ability to support their army

Question 11

Draft

Answer 11

A system requiring citizens to join armed forces