| A | B | 
| Confederacy | the 11 Southern states that separated from the United States and called itself the Confederate States of America | 
| secede | to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance | 
| Union | the 22 Northern States during the Civil War | 
| Robert E. Lee | Main General of the Confederacy | 
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 
| Stonewall Jackson | General of the Confederacy | 
| Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War | 
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States | 
| George B. McClellan | Union General | 
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General | 
| Tecumseh Sherman | Union General | 
| Harriet Tubman | Conductor on the Underground Railroad | 
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist and orator | 
| Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship | 
| Monitor | Union ironclad battleship | 
| moderate | an individual opposed to extreme views or measures in politics or religion | 
| emancipation | a condition of being freed from oppression, bondage or restraint | 
| civil rights | rights belonging to a person because of his or her status as a citizen or as a member of society | 
| draft | a call to military service | 
| Total War | the idea to destroy everything the enemy has, not just troops but all Social, Economic, and Agricultural resources. | 
| Clara Barton | organized supplies for Union troops | 
| Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer | 
| 54th Massachusetts | most famous African American Unit to fight in the war | 
| Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |