| A | B |
| Tecumseh Sherman | famous march destroyed much of the south including Atlanta, GA. |
| Richmond | was the Confederate capitol. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | captured Vicksburg, the last confederate fort on the Mississippi. |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's theatre. |
| Abraham Lincoln | delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| Abraham Lincoln | was the Union President during the Civil War. |
| Washington D.C. | was the Union capitol. |
| Carpetbaggers | was the nickname given to Northerner's who moved south during Reconstruction. |
| Ku Klux Klan | was a secret society that killed and terrorized blacks during Reconstruction. |
| Robert E. Lee | was the commanding general of the confederate forces. |
| Jefferson Davis | was the Confederate President. |
| Andrew Johnson | was nearly impeached by an angry Republican congress after the Civil War. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | was an early abolitionist and publisher of the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper. |
| Frederick Douglass | was a runaway slave and publisher of the anti-slavery newspaper the North Star. |
| Clara Barton | was a Civil War nurse and later founded the Red Cross. |
| Stephen Douglas | defeated Abe Lincoln in the race for Illinois Senator but lost to him in the Presidential Race. |
| Harriet Tubman | was a runaway slave who later saved many as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
| Thomas Jackson | earned the nickname "Stonewall" for the way his troops held the line at the first Battle of Bull Run. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| Reconstruction | was the name given to Lincoln's plan to rebuild the south. |
| Sharecroppers | Poor farmers who rented plantation owner's land for a share of their crops were called |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Robert E. Lee surrendered to |