| A | B |
| issues leading to Civil War | tariffs, slavery, states rights |
| abolitionist | person against slavery |
| South | had very few abolitionists |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | by Harriet Beecher Stowe, made abolitionists and slave owners mad |
| Compromises of 1800s | these failed to settle issue of slavey in the territories |
| 1861 | Lincoln called for troops to go south |
| 1860 | Lincoln elected President |
| Lincoln's election | caused secession of southern states |
| Ft. Sumter | opening confrontation of Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | after battle of Antietam, freed slaves in rebel states |
| Gettysburg | turning point of Civil War, North won |
| Appomatox | where Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant |
| Union | what the states that stayed part of U.S. were called |
| Confederate | person who fought for the south |
| Lincoln | he insisted Union be held together by force |
| Jefferson Davis | U.S. senator turned president of Confederacy |
| Army of Northern Virginia | led by Robert E. Lee, told south to accept defeat |
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist, urged Lincoln to use slaves to fight |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's vision that US was one nation, where all men are equal |
| 1865 | end of the Civil War |