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| border states | four slave states that did not secede from the Union during the Civil War |
| casualties | dead or wounded in battle |
| draft | government selection of people to work in the military |
| emancipation | the freeing of enslaved people |
| camp | a place where people live for a time in tents, cabins, or other rough shelters |
| home front | all the people in a country who are not in the military during war time |
| civilian | someone who is not in the military |
| Robert E. Lee | the leader of the Confederate troops |
| Ulysses S. Grant | a general for the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the Union |
| Union | the North |
| Confederacy | the South |
| Clara Barton | a northern woman who was a nurse and founded the Red Cross |
| Mathew Brady | a civilian who took pictures of soldiers, camp life, and battlefields and showed them to civilians in the North |
| telegraph | a machine that sends electric signals over wires |
| total war | the strategy of destroying an enemy's resources |
| desert | to leave the army without permission |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | he was chosen by President Lincoln to lead the Union army in Tennessee |
| Reconstruction | the period when the South rejoined the Union |
| assassination | the murder of an important leader |
| Freedmen's Bureau | provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites |
| impeach | to charge a government official with a crime |
| John Wilkes Booth | an actor that shot Abraham Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President that became President after Lincoln was shot |
| sharecropping | when a landowner allows use of their fields for a share of the crop |
| Jim Crow | a nickname for law that kept African Americans separate from other Americans |
| segregation | forced separation of the races |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | the President that ended reconstruction and ordered government soldiers to leave the South |
| Booker T. Washington | a former slave that opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a school for African Americans |
| George Washington Carver | invented over 300 products made from peanuts |
