| A | B |
| Jefferson Davis | President of CSA |
| Robert E. Lee | Head General of CSA |
| George McClellan | egomaniac Union general |
| Chancellorsville | Confederate victory that made Lee decide to invade North |
| Total War | destruction of civilian as well as military resources |
| Antietam | bloodiest one day of the war |
| Shiloh | TN victory that opened South to Union invasion |
| Vicksburg | Union victory that gave them control of Mississippi River |
| Gettysburg | Union victory that ended Lee's invasions of the North |
| unconditional surrender | giving up by throwing oneself on the mercy of the winner |
| blockade | using ships to block enemy ports |
| Anaconda Plan | Union plan to surround and squeeze the CSA into giving up |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's statement freeing slaves in states still in rebellion |
| 1st Battle of Bull Run | Confederate victory that proved the war would not be short |
| William T. Sherman | Union general who marched through Georgia to the sea |
| border states | slave states that did not secede |
| March to the Sea | Sherman's destructive march through Georgia |
| Appomattox | where Lee surrendered to Grant |
| 2nd Battle of Bull Run | Confederate victory that made Lee decide to invade Maryland |
| U.S. Grant | head Union general who wasn't afraid to fight |
| Monitor and Merrimack | ironclad ships that changed the way ships were made forever |