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Chapter 13 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| border states | Slave states that stayed in the Union. |
| casulaties | 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 who are not in the military during wartime. |
| civilian | A person who is not in the military. |
| Reconstruction | The period when the South rejoined the Union. |
| desert | To leave the army without permission. |
| total war | The strategy of destroying an enemy's resources. |
| telegraph | A machine that sends electric signals over wires. |
| sharecropping | A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return the farmers gave the landowner a share of the crop. |
| impeach | To charge a government official with a crime. |
| Freedmen's bureau | An organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor Black and White Americans. |
| assassination | The murder of an important leader. |
| Jim Crow | Laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans. |
| segregation | The forced separation of the races. |