| A | B |
|---|
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order freeing all slaves in Confederate states |
| Vicksburg | Battle giving the Union control of the Mississippi |
| Fort Sumter | Confederates fired the first shots of the war here. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | General Lee surrendered to Grant here. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Lincoln gave him command of Union forces in 1864 |
| Robert E. Lee | commanded Confederate forces in the last year of the war |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Frederick Douglass | Black leader who asked Lincoln to let Blacks fight in the Union army |
| thirteenth amendment | Amendment that abolished slavery everywhere in the U.S.A. |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | president following Lincoln |
| Clara Barton | name of the Civil War nurse who started the American Red Cross |
| Harriet Tubman | nurse and spy as well as Underground Railroad conductor |
| Richmond | northern capital of the Confederacy |
| Sherman | general who burned buildings from Atlanta to the Sea |
| fourteenth | This Amendment dealt with citizenship. |
| fifteenth | This amendment gave black men the right to vote. |
| black codes | These restricted the rights of black people. |
