Civil War Level 1

2. warship protected by heavy iron armor plates
4. soldiers who formed the primary combat force in Civil War armies
7. Rights-The belief that individual states hold supreme authority over the federal government in certain areas
8. mandatory draft of citizens into military service used by both armies
10. national effort to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people after the war
12. troops used primarily for scouting, raiding, and quick mobile attacks
15. Northern and border states that remained loyal to the federal government during the war
16. Proclamation-Lincoln's executive order declaring enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free
17. strategy of defeating an enemy by continuously wearing down their personnel and resources over time
19. Escaped enslaved individuals who sought protection behind Union military lines
20. military weapons, including cannons and mortars, operated by specialized crews

1. Democrats who opposed the Civil War and urged an immediate peace treaty with the Confederacy.
3. government established by the Southern States that seceded from the United States
5. War-A strategy aimed at destroying an enemy's military forces, economic infrastructure, and civilian resources
6. loyalty to a regional section of the nation rather than the country as a whole
9. soldier lost to military service through death, wound, illness, capture, or missing status
11. formal withdrawal of eleven Southern States from the Union
13. movement to end slavery immediately
14. Plan-The Union's strategic plan to naval blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
18. Corpus-A legal constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment that Lincoln temporarily suspended