5 th Grade Civil War Vocabulary

55thth Grade Civil War Grade Civil War VocabularyVocabulary

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Vocabulary words in this unit

Border State Slave State Free StateDraft Emancipation CasualtiesCamp Home Front CivilianDesert Total War TelegraphUnion Confederacy SecessionStates’ Rights Fugitive TariffDiscrimination Abolitionist SectionalismPopular Sovereignty 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