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17 Cards in this Set
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Emancipation
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freeing of enslaved people
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border states
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states that stayed in the
Union |
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casualties
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soldiers who are killed or
wounded |
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draft
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government selects people
to serve in the military |
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camp
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a group of temporary
shelters, such as tents |
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home front
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people who are not in
the military |
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civilian
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person who is not in
the military |
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telegraph
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machine that sends
electric signals over wires |
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Total war
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the strategy of destroying
an enemy's resources |
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desert
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leave the army without
permission |
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reconstruction
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period when the South
rejoined the Union |
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assassination
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the murder of an important
leader |
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Freedmen's Bureau
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provided food, clothing,
medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites |
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impeach
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charge a government
official with a crime |
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sharecropping
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poor farmers used a
landowner's fields. In return farmers gave the landowner a share of the crops. |
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Jim Crow
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nickname for laws that
kept African Americans separate from othe Americans |
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segregation
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the forced seperation of
the races. |
