5th Grade Civil War
Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version!
Vocabulary words
in this unit
Border State
Draft
Camp
Desert
Union
States’ Rights
Discrimination
Popular Sovereignty
Slave State
Free State
Emancipation
Casualties
Home Front
Civilian
Total War
Telegraph
Confederacy
Secession
Fugitive
Tariff
Abolitionist
Sectionalism
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