| 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 | 
| West Point | Army Academy | 
| Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War | 
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States | 
| George B. McClellan | Union General | 
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General | 
| Tecumseh Sherman | Union General | 
| Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad | 
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist and orator | 
| Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship | 
| Monitor | Union ironclad battleship | 
| moderate | an individual opposed to extreme views or measures in politics or religion | 
| 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 | 
| Mary Livermore | aided sick Union soldiers;established U.S. Sanitary Commission | 
| Mary | ran Union hospitals | 
| Phoebe Yates Pember | ran hospital for Confederacy | 
| Ellen Goodridge | Union soldier | 
| Amy Clark | Congederate soldier | 
| Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer | 
| Phillip Henry Sheridan | Union General | 
| George G. Meade | Union General | 
| Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |