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10th Grade Civil War Part 2 – Vocabulary Practice 1
Directions: Circle the vocabulary word that BEST completes each sentence.
1.
Because there were not enough soldiers enlisting
in the Union army, the government decided to
enact _____.
A. blockade runners
B. conscription
C. greenbacks
D. habeas corpus
E. technology
2.
John Wilkes Booth was involved in a/an _____
to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
A. atrocity
B. bounty
C. conspiracy
D. habeas corpus
E. siege
3.
In order to get past Union ships, the Confederate
navy utilized _____.
A. atrocities
B. blockade runners
C. hardtack
D. pillaging
E. technologies
4.
Because the Battle of Gettysburg lasted three
days and killed many soldiers, it is considered a
battle of _____.
A. attrition
B. conscription
C. foraging
D. pillaging
E. technology
5.
Civil War soldiers had to rely on _____ in order
to eat because rations were issued infrequently.
A. bounties
B. foraging
C. habeas corpus
D. sieging
E. technology
6.
Because it ran out of gold and silver coinage, the
Union army paid its soldiers in _____.
A. blockade runners
B. greenbacks
C. hardtack
D. scapegoats
E. technology
7.
Union soldiers who enlisted in the army were
paid a/an ______ as a reward.
A. bounty
B. conscription
C. hardtack
D. mandate
E. scapegoat
8.
Henry Wirz was tried and executed for war
crimes, also called _____.
A. atrocities
B. conspiracies
C. foraging
D. greenbacks
E. mandates
9.
General Sherman is most widely remembered for
_____ many southern towns in what was called
the “Burning of the South”.
A. blockade running
B. foraging
C. mandating
D. pillaging
E. sieging
10. Abraham Lincoln interpreted his re-election as a
_____ that the Civil War should continue.
A. atrocity
B. bounty
C. conspiracy
D. mandate
E. siege