| A | B |
|---|
| Fort Sumter | Opening Confrontation of the Civil War |
| Antietam | The Bloodiest day of the Civil War, Battle in Maryland where Robert E. Lee lost a third of his troops and the North missed a chance to end the war. |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln referred to the Civil War as a Second American Revolution |
| Gettysburg | Turning point of the Civil War |
| Appomattox | Town where Lee surrendered to Grant |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the Army of Northern Va., He did not think secession was right but did not feel the union should be held together by force. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General of the Union forces who won battles over the south when other generals could not. |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States of America during the Civil War. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate Sates of America. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all the slaves in states that were in rebellion and prohibited foreign involvement on the side of the Confederacy, |
| Secede | To withdraw or leave |
| Election of 1860 | Won by Lincoln and South Carolina seceded shortly after |
