| A | B |
|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | Elected president in 1860 |
| Wade Hampton | General who fought in Battle of Bull Run |
| Jefferson Davis | Elected president of the Confederacy |
| John C. Calhoun | Believed in states rights and was Vice-President of U.S. |
| secede | break away from |
| Union | another name for the North during the Civil War |
| Confederacy | Another name for the South during the Civil War |
| South Carolina | first state to secede |
| Fort Sumter | where the Civil War began |
| blockade | Union set up along the coast to keep supplies out |
| slavery | one of the main causes of the Civil War |
