| A | B |
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| border states | slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War |
| casualties | people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a military action |
| draft | forced enrollment in the armed forces |
| emancipation | liberation, especially from slavery |
| home front | the civilian population or the civilian activities of a country at war |
| telegraph | a communications system the uses electric impulses to send messages by wire |
| total war | a method of warfare where anything connected to an enemy's resources is destroyed |
| Reconstruction | the period following the Civil War during which the Confederate States rejoined the Union |
| assassination | the murder of a public figure by surprise attack, usually for political reasons |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a federal agency formed to aid and protect former enslaved people in the South after the Civil War |
| impeach | to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| sharecropping | a system of farming in which a tenant farmer pays a share of the crops as rent to the landowner |
| Jim Crow | the practice of discriminating against and segregating African Americans after Reconstruction |
| segregation | the practice of separating a group of people from the rest of society |
