5 th Grade Civil War Vocabulary

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Vocabulary in 5th Grade Civil War Ch. 5

Slave States DesertConfederacy Home FrontPopular Sovereignty DraftEmancipation CampBorder States UnionTelegraph CivilianTotal War SecessionFree States Casualties

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 an 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 the withdrawal 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