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

2. Vocabulary words in this unit Border State Slave StateFree State Draft EmancipationCasualties Camp Home FrontCivilian Desert Total WarTelegraph Union ConfederacySecession States Rights FugitiveTariff Discrimination AbolitionistSectionalism Popular Sovereignty Underground Railroad

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

4. Camp

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

6. Emancipation

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

8. Draft

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

10. Border States

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

12. Home front

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

14. Free States

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

16. Civilian

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

18. Popular Sovereignty

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

20. Telegraph

21. What do we call leaving the army without permission?

22. Desert

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

24. Total War

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

26. Casualties

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

28. Confederacy

29. What is another name for the United States?

30. Union

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

32. Secession

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

34. Slave States

35. What do we call a person who is running away?

36. Fugitive

37. What do we call loyalty to one part of the country?

38. Sectionalism

39. What do we call the idea that states should make their own decisions about matters that affect them; not the federal government?

40. States rights

41. What do we call a tax placed on imported goods?

42. Tariff

43. What do we call a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South?

44. Underground Railroad

45. What do we call someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end, slavery?

46. Abolitionist

47. What do we call the unfair treatment of particular groups?

48. Discrimination