Gunnels - Ch. 6 Word Scramble
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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. |
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