| A | B |
| Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War occurs in this country |
| Fort Sumter, SC | Civil War starts here |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confederate forces |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General of the Union forces |
| Atlanta, Ga. | destroyed by total war tactics |
| Sherman | used total war tactics |
| secede | to leave the union |
| Gettysburg Address | Four score and seven years ago... |
| Antietam | bloodiest battle of the Civil War |
| Gettysburg, PA. | turning point of the war in favor of the north |
| Manassas | site of first major battle |
| 1865 | Lincoln dies |
| Reconstruction | time of rebuilding for the south |
| 13th amendment | abolishes slavery |
| 14th amendment | defines citizenship, equal protection for all |
| 15th amendment | suffrage for freed african americans |
| dysentary | major killer of the war |
| Richmond, VA. | capital of Confederacy |
| Jefferson Davis | Predident of the Confederacy |
| Appomattox Courthouse | site of Lee's surrender |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Frees slaves |
| William Lloyd Garrison | editor of Liberator |
| The Liberator | abolitionist newspaper |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave, abolitionist |
| Fugative Slave Law | required captured slaves back to the south |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | describes conditions of slavery |