| A | B |
|---|
| Strengths of the South | leadership, tactics, morale |
| strengths of the North | population, railroads, factories |
| Monitor vs Merrimack | first ironclad ships |
| draft | required military service |
| martial law | emergency rule by the military |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in the South |
| Battle of Gettysburg | greatest battle ever fought in the Civil War |
| civil war | fought between the North and the South, war between people of the same country |
| Gettysburg Address | Fourscore and seven years ago |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery forever |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Lincoln |
| reconstruction | a program to repair the damage to the South and restore the southern states to the Union |
| black codes | laws that restrict freedmen's rights |
| 14th amendment | all persons born in the US are citizens, equal protection, due process |
| civil rights | citizens' personal liberties guaranteed by law |
| impeach | to charge the President with wrong doing |
| 15th amendment | black men the right to vote |
| carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans who moved to the South, greedy men seeking to grab power |
| scalawag | white, southern republicans |
| sharecroping | farming a portion of a planters land for a share of the harvest |
| tenant farming | rented farm land to raise crops |
| Ku Klux Klan | pledged to defend the social and political superiority of whites |
