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5th Grade Civil War Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version! Vocabulary words in this unit Border State Draft Camp Desert Union States’ Rights Discrimination Popular Sovereignty Slave State Free State Emancipation Casualties Home Front Civilian Total War Telegraph Confederacy Secession Fugitive Tariff Abolitionist Sectionalism Underground Railroad What do we call a place where people live for a time in tents, cabins, or other rough shelters? Camp What do we call the freeing of enslaved people? Emancipation What do we call government selection of people to serve in the military? Draft What do we call a slave state that stayed in the Union? Border States What do we call all the people in the country that are not in the military during wartime? Home front What do we call a state that did not have slavery? Free States What do we call a person that is not in the military? Civilian What do we call an idea that the people who live in a place make decisions for themselves? Popular Sovereignty What do we call a machine that sends electric signals over wires? Telegraph What do we call leaving the army without permission? Desert What do we call the strategy of destroying the enemy’s resources? Total War What do we call soldiers who are killed or wounded? Casualties What do we call the name chosen by the states that left the Union at the time of the Civil War? Confederacy What is another name for the United States? Union What do we call it when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest? Secession What do we call a state that permitted slavery? Slave States What do we call a person who is running away? Fugitive What do we call loyalty to one part of the country? Sectionalism What do we call the idea that states should make their own decisions about matters that affect them; not the federal government? States’ rights What do we call a tax placed on imported goods? Tariff What do we call a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South? Underground Railroad What do we call someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end, slavery? Abolitionist What do we call the unfair treatment of particular groups? Discrimination
