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2. A big building or warehouse where the army keeps all their weapons and extra gunpowder.
4. A super hard, cheap cracker that soldiers ate because it didn’t rot as fast as normal bread.
5. To officially quit and break away from the country.
8. Anyone who is killed, wounded, or goes missing during a battle—it’s not just about people who died.
10. When you care way more about your own region than you do about the whole country.
12. The states in the North that stayed loyal to the U.S. government and didn’t leave.
14. The legal process of setting people free from slavery.
16. A specific group of soldiers whose only job is to stay at a fort and guard it.
17. A soldier who gets scared or fed up and runs away from the army with no plan of coming back.
18. These were the first warships that had thick iron plates on the sides so bullets would just bounce off.
19. When the government forces people to join the military. Most people just call it the draft.

1. A brutal strategy where an army destroys everything in their path, like crops and railroads, to force the other side to give up.
3. Basically just a fancy word for the time period before the Civil War actually started.
6. Soldiers who fight on the ground on foot rather than on horses.
7. This refers to the main U.S. government. During the war, it’s what they called the North.
9. When someone makes a plan to murder a famous person, like a president or a political leader.
11. The period after the war when the North was trying to rebuild the South and bring the country back together.
13. The group of 11 Southern states that broke away from the United States to start their own government.
15. A big building or warehouse where the army keeps all their weapons and extra gunpowder.