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 | 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 |
Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad |
Frederick Douglass | abolitionist and speechmaker |
Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship |
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 |
Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |