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SS ch. 13 Vocabulary
SS ch. 13 vocab
Question | Answer |
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provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites | Freedman's Bureau |
slave states that stay in the Union | Border States |
The period when the South rejoined the Union | Reconstruction |
a strategy of destroying the enemy's resources | Total War |
the government chooses people to serve in the military | draft |
the forced separation of races | segregation |
to charge a government official with a crime | impeach |
when land owners let poor farmers use small areas of land, in return the share cropper gave the land part of the crop | sharecropping |
a nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans | Jim Crow |
soldiers who were killed or wounded | casualties |
all the people who are not in the military | home front |
a machine that sends electric messages over wire | telegraph |
group of temporary shelters, such as tents | camp |
the murder of an important leader | assassination |
a person who is not in the military | civilian |
the freeing of enslaved people | emancipation |
to leave the army without permission | desert |