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ss ch 6 vocab
Social Studies ch 6 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Border States | Slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War. |
| Casualties | People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a military action. |
| Draft | Forced enrollment in the armed forces. |
| Emancipation | Liberation, especially from slavery. |
| Camp | A place where tents or other temporary shelters are set up, especially for soldiers or travelers. |
| Home Front | The civilian population or the civilian activities of a country at war. |
| Civilian | A person not serving in the armed forces. |
| Telegraph | A communication system that used electric impulses to send message by wire. |
| Total war | A method of warfare where anything connected to an enemy's resources is destroyed. |
| Desert | To leave, abandon, or withdraw, especially from an army. |
| Reconstruction | The period following the Civil War during which the Confederate states rejoined the Union. |
| Assassination | The murder of a public figure by surprise attack, usually for political reasons. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A federal agency formed to aid and protect former enslaved people in the South after the Civil War. |
| Impeach | To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office. |
| Sharecropping | A system of farming in which a tenant farmer pays a share of the crops as rent to the landowner. |
| Jim Crow | The practice of discriminating against and segregating African Americans after Reconstruction. |
| Segregation | The practice of separating a group of people from the rest of society. |