1. 5 th Grade Civil War Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburgs and Drews version!

2. What do we call a place where people live for a time in tents, cabins, or other rough shelters?

3. Camp

4. What do we call the freeing of enslaved people?

5. Emancipation

6. What do we call government selection of people to serve in the military?

7. Draft

8. What do we call a slave state that stayed in the Union?

9. Border States

10. What do we call all the people in the country that are not in the military during wartime?

11. Home front

12. What do we call a state that did not have slavery?

13. Free States

14. What do we call a person that is not in the military?

15. Civilian

16. What do we call an idea that the people who live in a place make decisions for themselves?

17. Popular Sovereignty

18. What do we call a machine that sends electric signals over wires?

19. Telegraph

20. What do we call leaving an army without permission?

21. Desert

22. What do we call the strategy of destroying the enemys resources?

23. Total War

24. What do we call soldiers who are killed or wounded?

25. Casualties

26. What do we call the name chosen by the states that left the Union at the time of the Civil War?

27. Confederacy

28. What is another name for the United States?

29. Union

30. What do we call the withdrawal when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest?

31. Secession

32. What do we call a state that permitted slavery?

33. Slave States