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| Blockade | the isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area (as a harbor) by troops or warships to prevent passage of persons or supplies |
| Anaconda Plan | Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and contolling the Mississippi River. |
| George McClellan | Union General who unsuccessfully lead an assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond. |
| Shiloh | Civil war battle fought in Western Tennessee that damaged Ulysses S. Grant's reputation. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion. |
| Copper Heads | negative term given to antiwar northern Democrats during the Civil War. |
| Habeaus Corpus | constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed. |
| Siege | military tactic in which an enemy is surrounded and all supplies are cut off in an attempt to force a surrender. |
| Total War | military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemy troops by the economic and civilian resources that support them |
| martial law | is an extreme and rare measure used to control society during war or periods of civil unrest or chaos. |
| Conscription (draft) | compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service |
| Contraband | goods or merchandise whose importation, exportation, or possession is forbidden; a slave who during the American Civil War escaped to or was brought within the Union lines |
| Attrition | the act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse, or attack |
| Income Tax | a tax on the net income of an individual or a business |
