5 th Grade Civil War Vocabulary

1. 5th Grade Civil War Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary in 5th Grade Civil War Ch. 5 Slave States Desert Confederacy Home Front Popular Sovereignty Draft Emancipation Camp Border States Union Telegraph Civilian Total War Secession Free States Casualties

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 an army without permission?

22. Desert

23. What do we call the strategy of destroying the enemy’s 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 the withdrawal 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