| A | B |
|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the U.S. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Stonewall Jackson | an important Southern general |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Confederate army |
| Frederick Douglass | a freed slave; an important writer |
| Reconstruction | the years after the Civil War, when the U.S. tried to rebuild itself |
| civil war | a war between groups of people from the same country |
| American Civil War | a war fought between 1861 and 1865 |
| Union | the Northern states |
| Confederacy | the Southern states |
| farming | important to the economy in the South |
| industry | important to the economy in the North |
| Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg | important battles |
| tariff | a tax on something from a foreign country |
| Appomattox | the place where Lee surrendered to Grant |
| Emancipation Proclamation | made slaves in the South free |
| Gettysburg Address | a famous speech by Abraham Lincoln |
| U. S. Grant | one of the leaders of the Union Army; the 18th President |
| secede | to leave a group |
| Andrew Johnson | the 17th President |
