| A | B |
| Fort Donelson | Fort taken by US Grant along with Fort Henry |
| Vicksburg | Port city on the Mississippi: taken by Union seige |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| McClellan | Union general fired by Lincoln for having the "slows" |
| Jackson | His nickname came because he stood firm at Bull Run |
| Manassas | Another name for battle of Bull Run |
| Antietam | Lincoln freed the slaves after this battle |
| Capture Richmond | Part of the North's plan for victory |
| Fight a defensive war | Part of the South's plan for victory |
| Faragut | Naval leader that captured New Orleans for the Union |
| More People, Money, Factories, Railroads, and Lincoln | 5 advantages of the North |
| Better Generals and fighting a defensive war | 2 advantages of the South |
| Gettysburg | Turning point of the war; South was never on the offensive again |
| Shiloh | Bloody Tennessee battle that altered ways armies fought |
| 680,000 | Number of Americans that died in the Civil |
| Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri | Border Slave states that remained in the Union |
| Virginia, N. Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee | The last 4 states to secede to the CSA |
| Anaconda | Name that was given to the Union plan for victory |
| 21 years of age | Most Civil War soldiers were under this age |
| Conscription | To force one to serve in the military |
| Freed the slaves in the seceded states | Emancipation Proclamation |