Civil War Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. warships covered with protective iron plates
- 5. a tax on the money people receive
- 7. led the most successful army in the West
- 8. an attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military force and cutting it off until the people surrender
- 12. general who replaced McDowell after the defeat at Bull Run
- 16. slave states that did not secede
- 18. or free
- 19. a type of rule in which the military is in charge
- 20. a general rise in prices
Down
- 1. a soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action
- 2. a general of a union army
- 4. a common southern term for peanut, also a song
- 6. a system of required military service
- 9. a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
- 10. a military action to prevent traffic coming into an area or leaving it
- 11. amount of troops under 16 years old
- 13. the military term for persons killed, wounded or missing in action
- 14. or not favoring either side
- 15. someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery
- 17. all-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources and its people's will to fight