1. Ch. 15 Civil War Vocabulary Correct Definitions
1. Blockade - Using troops or ships to prevent passage of supplies
2. States’ Rights - Belief that individual states should have more power than the federal government
3. Conscription - Forced enrollment & service in the military
4. Quinine - A drug used to fight malaria and other “fever diseases;”
5. Sovereignty - A supreme level of authority
6. Unionist - During the Civil War, a person who supported The North and its beliefs & causes.
7. (To) Secede - To withdraw
8. Perpetual - Continuing forever
9. Vigilantes - People who act as a private “police force” and take the law into their own hands.
10. Preventative Strike - An attack undertaken to prevent the enemy from possibly attacking in the future.
11. Homespun - A loosely woven, homemade article of clothing; handmade cloth
12. Ordinance - A decree or law