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ss ch 6 vocab
Social Studies ch 6 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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. |