1. ABOLISH FORMALLY PUT AN END TO (A SYSTEM, PRACTICE, OR INSTITUTION)

2. ABOLITIONISM IS A MOVEMENT TO END SLAVERY

3. CIVIL -OF OR RELATING TO ORDINARY CITIZENS AND THEIR CONCERNS.

4. CONFEDERACY -AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN PERSONS, PARTIES, STATES, ETC., FOR SOME PURPOSE. -THE GROUP OF 11 SOUTHERN STATES THAT SECEDED FROM THE UNITED STATES IN 1860–61.

5. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW -LAWS PASSED AS PART OF THE 1850 COMPROMISE, WHICH HELPED SLAVEHOLDERS RECAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES.

6. MINIE BALL -A BULLET WITH A HALLOW BASE - THE MINIE BALL, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED BY CAPTAIN CLAUDE-ETIENNE MINIE OF FRANCE AND IMPROVED ON BY MANUFACTURERS IN THE UNITED STATES, CHANGED WARFARE. SINCE THE MINIE BALL WAS SMALLER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE BARREL, IT COULD BE LOADED QUICKLY BY DROPPING THE BULLET DOWN THE BARREL.

7. SECEDE -TO FORMALLY WITHDRAW FROM THE UNION

8. SECESSION -THE ACTION OF WITHDRAWING FORMALLY FROM MEMBERSHIP OF A FEDERATION OR BODY, ESPECIALLY A POLITICAL STATE

9. SLAVERY -IS A LEGAL OR ECONOMIC SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PEOPLE ARE TREATED AS PROPERTY. THOUGH LAWS AND SYSTEMS VARY, AS PROPERTY, ENSLAVED PERSONS, REFERRED TO AS "SLAVES", MAY BE BOUGHT AND SOLD

10. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD -AN ABOVE-THE-GROUND SERIES OF ESCAPE ROUTES FOR RUNAWAY SLAVES FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH.

11. UNION -UNION IS THE STATE OF BEING UNITED OR JOINED -REFER TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND SPECIFICALLY TO THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE 20 OTHER FREE STATES AND FIVE BORDER SLAVE STATES WHICH SUPPORTED IT. -THE UNION IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "THE NORTH"

12. ANACONDA PLAN -UNION’S PLAN TO SURROUND AND DEFEAT THE SOUTH -THE BASIC PLAN WAS TO BLOCKADE THE SALTWATER PORTS OF THE SOUTH AND TO STOP ALL COMMERCE ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER SO NO COTTON COULD BE EXPORTED AND NO WAR SUPPLIES COULD BE IMPORTED. -THE ASSUMPTION WAS THAT THE SOUTH, FEELING CONSIDERABLE ECONOMIC PUNISHMENT IF IT CONTINUED THE REBELLION, WOULD RETURN TO THE UNION BEFORE ANY MAJOR BATTLES WOULD BE FOUGHT. -THE STRATEGY WAS NICKNAMED THE ANACONDA PLAN IN THE NEWSPAPERS BECAUSE IT WOULD STRANGLE THE CONFEDERACY THE WAY THE ANACONDA SNAKE CONSTRICTS ITS VICTIM.

13. ARTILLERY -LARGE-CALIBER GUNS USED IN WARFARE ON LAND. -ARTILLERY IS A CLASS OF LARGE MILITARY WEAPONS BUILT TO FIRE MUNITIONS FAR BEYOND THE RANGE OF INFANTRY'S SMALL ARMS. (I.E. CANNONS)

14. ATTRITION -THE ACTION OR PROCESS OF GRADUALLY REDUCING THE STRENGTH OR EFFECTIVENESS OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THROUGH SUSTAINED ATTACK OR PRESSURE.

15. BLOCKADE -THE PREVENTING OF GOODS OR PEOPLE FROM ENTERING OR LEAVING AN AREA.

16. BORDER STATES -WERE SLAVE STATES THAT HAD NOT DECLARED A SECESSION FROM THE UNION. -DELAWARE, MARYLAND, KENTUCKY, AND MISSOURI WERE BORDER STATES

17. CAMPAIGN -A SERIES OF MILITARY BATTLES, ATTACKS, ETC., DESIGNED TO PRODUCE A PARTICULAR RESULT IN A WAR

18. CAUSALITY -THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT.

19. CAVALRY -SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT ON HORSEBACK.

20. CONSCRIPTION -LAW THAT FORCED MEN TO FIGHT IN THE WAR.

21. COPPERHEAD -NORTHERNERS WHO OPPOSED THE WAR.

22. EMANCIPATION -THE FACT OR PROCESS OF BEING SET FREE FROM LEGAL, SOCIAL, OR POLITICAL RESTRICTIONS; LIBERATION.

23. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION -LEGALLY FREED ALL SLAVES IN REBELLIOUS CONFEDERATE STATES. -WAS A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON JANUARY 1, 1863, AS A WAR MEASURE DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, DIRECTED TO ALL OF THE AREAS IN REBELLION AND ALL SEGMENTS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH (INCLUDING THE ARMY AND NAVY) OF THE UNITED STATES.

24. HABEAS CORPUS -A WRITTEN COMMAND REQUIRING A PERSON UNDER ARREST TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE A JUDGE OR INTO COURT, ESPECIALLY TO SECURE THE PERSON'S RELEASE UNLESS LAWFUL GROUNDS ARE SHOWN FOR THEIR DETENTION.

25. INEVITABILITY -UNABLE TO BE AVOIDED, EVADED, OR ESCAPED; CERTAIN; NECESSARY

26. INFANTRY -SOLDIERS OR MILITARY UNITS THAT FIGHT ON FOOT.

27. INSURRECTION -AN ACT OR INSTANCE OF RISING IN REVOLT, REBELLION, OR RESISTANCE AGAINST CIVIL AUTHORITY OR AN ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT.

28. IRONCLAD -WARSHIP COVERED WITH IRON

29. MARTIAL LAW -IS USUALLY IMPOSED TEMPORARILY WHEN THE GOVERNMENT OR CIVILIAN AUTHORITIES FAIL TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY (E.G., MAINTAIN ORDER AND SECURITY, OR PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES).

30. REBEL -A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. -JOHNNY REBEL = IS THE NATIONAL PERSONIFICATION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES, OR LESS GENERALLY, THE CONFEDERACY DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. -A PERSON WHO RISES IN OPPOSITION OR ARMED RESISTANCE AGAINST AN ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OR RULER.

31. REGIMENT -A PERMANENT UNIT OF AN ARMY -TYPICALLY COMMANDED BY A COLONEL AND DIVIDED INTO SEVERAL COMPANIES, SQUADRONS, OR BATTERIES AND OFTEN INTO TWO BATTALIONS.

32. SEIGE -A MILITARY OPERATION IN WHICH ENEMY FORCES SURROUND A TOWN OR BUILDING, CUTTING OFF ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES, WITH THE AIM OF COMPELLING THE SURRENDER OF THOSE INSIDE.

33. YANKEE -AN INHABITANT OF NEW ENGLAND OR ONE OF THE NORTHERN STATES. -BILLY YANKS = IS THE NATIONAL PERSONIFICATION OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES, OR LESS GENERALLY, THE UNION DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR