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Gunnels - Ch. 6
Civil War and Reconstruction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| border states | Slave states that stayed in the Union. (ex. Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky) |
| casualities | soldiers who are killed or wounded. |
| draft | to force someone to serve in the military. |
| emancipation | to set slaves free. |
| camp | a group of temporary shelters, such as tents |
| home front | all the people who are not in the military during war time. |
| civilian | a person not in the military |
| total war | the strategy of destroying an enemy’s resources. |
| telegraph | a machine that sends messages over electrical wires. |
| desert | to leave the army without permission |
| Reconstruction | the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. |
| assassination | the murder of an important leader |
| Freedman's Bureau | a government organization that helped poor blacks and whites get medical care, legal advice, education, and jobs. |
| impeach | to charge a government official with a crime. |