| A | B |
|---|
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate military general commander |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general accidentally short after Chancellorsville |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of Union army who accepted Lee's surrender. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's military orders that freed slaves |
| total war | Destruction of enemy troops and economic resources |
| war of attrition | Grant's pan to continue fighting until South ran out of resources. |
| William T. Sherman | Commanded the Union forces that captured Atlanta and Savannah |
| First Batle of Bull Run | July 1861 battle named by Southerners; near Manasa Junction |
| Joseph Johnston | Bull Run Confederate general |
| Clara Barton | Founded American Red Cross |
| habeas corpus | legal action from unlawfull imprisonment. Latin: You shall have body. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Persons born or naturalized in U.S. could not be denied equal protection of the law. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Provided African American males with right to vote. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Terrorist group of angry white southerns seeking to stop African Americans from voting. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1877 | Enforced Reconstruction by prohibiting business from discriminating against African Americans |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assasinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford theatre |
| amnesty | An official pardon issued by the government |
| Reconstruction | Period after Civil War during which U.S. Government began rebuilding of former Confederate states. |
