goods illegally traded during wartime

Civil War Vocabulary 1861 Flashcards

1

What is a cartridge box?

a collection of weapons
a sack to hold food
a container for ammunition
a way to transport the dead

2

What is a battery?

a fence around a battlefield
a unit of 4-6 cannon
a electrical source
a beating

3

This is how Abraham Lincoln died.

old age
dysentery
poison
assassination

4

What is a person who fights to end slavery?

a glory roader
an abolitionist
a soldier
a freedom fighter

5

What closes off an area usually through the use of boats

blockade
bladerunner
battery
battle

6

A battle is...

bigger than an engagement
bigger than a skirmish
smaller than a war
all of the above

7

What is artillery?

soldiers on horseback
a unit of 4-6 cannon
rifles
large, powerful weapons

8

Confederacy

all of the above
Rebels
CSA
Confederate States of America

9

What is a Copperhead?

an immigrant serving in the Union Army
someone who doesn't believe in War
a Southerner who agreed with the North
a Northerner who agreed with the South

10

What is cavalry?

foot soldiers
soldiers on horseback
fife players
drummer boys

11

What is a casualty?

a wounded soldier
a p.o.w.
a dead soldier
all of the above

12

What is contraband?

the musicians who instructed the troops
food and other supplies
goods illegally traded during wartime
spies

13

A liquid drug used to put wounded soldiers to sleep

ether
alcohol
chloroform
opiates

14

The movement of troops into the field or battle.

battery
scatter
defend
deploy

15

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

slave owning states
states that seceded
a and b
border states

Civil War Vocabulary 1861

Questions 15

Civil War Vocabulary 1861

Questions 15