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S.S. - Ch. 13 Vocab

Social Studies - Unit 6 - Chapter 13 Vocabulary

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Border States Slave states that stayed in the Union.
Casualties Soldiers who are killed or wounded.
Draft A system in which the government chooses people to serve in the military.
Emancipation The freeing of enslaved people.
Camp A group of temporary shelters, such as tents.
Home Front All the people in a country who are not in the military during wartime.
Civilian A person who is not in the military.
Telegraph A machine that sends electric signals over wires.
Total War The strategy of destroying an enemy's resources.
Desert To leave the army without permission.
Reconstruction The period when the South rejoined the Union.
Assassination The murder of an important leader.
Freedmen's Bureau An organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites.
Impeach To charge a government official with a crime.
Primary Source Firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period.
Secondary Source Information from someone who did not witness and event.
Sharecropping A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop.
Jim Crow A nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans.
Segregation The forced separation of the races.
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