Civil War 5th Grade Vocab

Question	Answer
Border State	A slave state that stayed in the Union
Emancipation	The freeing of enslaved people
Civilian	Any citizen that is not in the military
Slave State	A state that permitted slavery
Casualties	Solders that are killed or wounded
Telegraph	A machine that sends electrical signals over wires.
Free state	A state that does not (and never did) permit slavery.
Camp	A place where people live for a time in rough shelters.
Total War	The strategy of destroying an enemy's resources.
Draft	A selection of people for the military.
Homefront	All the people in the country who are in the military during wartime
Desert	To leave the military without permission.
Union	Another name for the U.S.
Confederacy	The name chosen by the states that left the Union at the time of the Civil War.
Secession	The withdrawal when a part of the country leaves or breaks off from the rest.
Popular Sovereignty (POP-YOU-lar sove-RENT-ee)	An idea that the people who live in a region make political decisions for themselves.

Resource summary

	Created by Mark4396 over 9 years ago