| A | B |
| Anaconda | North's war strategy |
| Clara Barton | founder of Red Cross |
| John Pope | Union Gen. defeated by Lee |
| U.S. Grant | Best union general |
| Robert E. Lee | refused to fight against Va. |
| Phil Sheridan | laid waste to Shenandoah Valley |
| Wm. Tecumseh Sherman | laid waste to civilian South |
| David Farragut | captured New orleans |
| conscription | the draft; means of getting men |
| income tax | temporary tax to pay for war |
| bonds | major method of raising money |
| bounty | money paid for a volunteer to take your place |
| rifle | made war more deadly |
| trenches | forerunner of WWI |
| Vicksburg | captured at same time as Gettysburg battle |
| Sherman | "War is hell" |
| Stonewall Jackson | Lee's right hand man |
| Shiloh | Grant found that war would be long and vicious |
| Mississippi | separated east and west Confederacy |
| Antietam | high point of confederacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | did not free any slaves |
| Trent Affair | almost led to war between US and Britain |
| Slidell and Mason | Confederate diplomats on board the Trent |
| Appomattox Court House | Lee surrendered here |
| Lincoln | head of US government |
| Md. Mo. Ky. Del. | border states |
| method of restraining MD | suspension of habeaus corpus |
| bloodies one day of fighting | Antietam |
| South Carolina | first state to secede |
| Jefferson Davis | Pres. of Confederacy |
| Taney | Supreme Court Chief Justice who opposed suspension of civil rights |
| Ashcroft | present Att. Gen. who supports suspension of civil rights |
| Vicksburg | major city on Mississippi |
| Monitor v. Merrimac | led to navies of iron ships |
| technology in war | leads to patents, inventions |
| war of attrition | wearing down the other side |
| George G. Meade | lost at Gettysburg, was fired for not following Lee |
| George McClellan | won at Antietam, was fired for not following Lee |
| Winfield Scott | old "fuss and feathers, engineered the anaconda plan |
| Mathew Brady | brought war home to civilians through photos |
| blockade | strategy to starve the south |
| March to the Sea | Shermans destruction of the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | result of Antietam |
| crusade | war to free the slaves |
| Bull Run | first real battle of the war |
| cautious | description of McClellan |
| Grant | battered and followed his enemy |
| horses | Grant let Rebels keep these for spring planting |
| Blacks | fought on side of Union, not Rebels |
| Chicamauga | Confed. victory in the South |
| nickname for Grant | Unconditional Surrender |
| women | served, sewed, clerked, nursed, worked in factories |