| A | B |
|---|
| Confederate States of America | The 11 Southern States that left the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | First & only president of the Confederacy |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of U.S. who led the Union during the Civil War |
| border states | Union states that still permitted slavery |
| Fort Sumter | Opening Battle of the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The freeing of slaves in the Confederacy |
| draft | requiring men to serve in the military |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the southern armies |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the northern armies |
| Battle of Gettysburg | July 1-3, 1863: turning point of the Civil War |
| total war | destroying enemy resources and opposing civilian population |
| Appomattox | April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant |
| Anaconda Plan | Northern plan to blockade the southern coasts and control of the Mississippi |
| Richmond, Vaginia | Capital of the Confederacy |
| siege | a military blockade of a city or fortress |
| Thirteenth Amendment | Amendment abolishing slavery |
| Clara Barton | created the American Red Cross |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln |
| Reconstruction | period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States |
| secede | to leave the Union |
