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| 7849594302 | martial law | The body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs during the Civil War. | 0 | |
| 7849594303 | merchant marine | Civilian ships and sailors who transported food, weapons,and munition during the Civil War. | 1 | |
| 7849594304 | habeas corpus | The civil right to obtain a writ of protection against illegal imprisonment; Abraham Lincoln suspended it during the Civil War. | 2 | |
| 7849594305 | greenback | A piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War | 3 | |
| 7849594306 | border states | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | 4 | |
| 7849594317 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 5 | |
| 7849594318 | Confederacy | The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 | 6 | |
| 7849594319 | Trent Affair | In 1861 the Confederacy sent emissaries James Mason to Britain and John Slidell to France to lobby for recognition. A Union ship captured both men and took them to Boston as prisonners. The British were angry and Lincoln ordered their release | 7 | |
| 7849594320 | Morrill Tariff Act | Passed by Congress in 1861 to meet the cost of the war. It raised the taxes on shipping from 5 to 10 percent however later needed to increase to meet the demanding cost of the war. | 8 | |
| 7849594321 | conscription | Drafting of civilians to serve in the army during the Civil War | 9 | |
| 7849594322 | New York City Draft Riots | In July 1863, just after the Battle at Gettysburg, mobs of Irish working-class men and women roamed the streets for four days until federal troops suppressed them. They loathed the idea of being drafted to fight a war on behalf of slaves who, once freed, would compete with them for jobs. | 10 | |
| 7849594323 | Alabama | Ship built for the C.S.A. by the British; fast-moving and maneuverable; wreaked havoc on Union trade and blockade attempts | 11 | |
| 7849594324 | National Banking System | Authorized by Congress in 1863 to establish a standard bank currency. Banks that joined the system could buy bonds and issue paper money. First significant step toward a national bank. | 12 | |
| 7849594325 | Billy Yank | The nickname of the Union used by the Confederate soldiers | 13 | |
| 7849594326 | Johnny Reb | 'johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War | 14 | |
| 7849594328 | Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free on January 1, 1863. | 15 | |
| 7850039032 | Merrimack | Was a former wooden warship turned into an ironclad. The Confederates plated it with iron railroad rails. They renamed it the Virginia. The Virginia easily wrecked Union Navy ships and threatened to destroy the whole Navy. The Confederates later destroyed the ship to keep it from the Union. This marked the end of wooden ships. | 16 | |
| 7850049213 | Monitor | Was a small Union ironclad built in about 100 days to stop the Confederate ship, the Merrimack. The Union built the ship and transported it to the Chesapeake. | 17 |
