| A | B |
|---|
| fighting defensive war | southern strength |
| Delaware | Border state |
| Southern Independence | Southern reason for war |
| restore the Union | Northern reason for war |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate Army commander |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union Army commander |
| invading unfamiliar land | Northern weakness |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of USA |
| Jefferson Davis | President of CSA |
| South Carolina | first state to secede |
| December 20, 1860 | When S. Carolina seceded |
| Fort Sumter | Where war started |
| April 12, 1861 | When war started |
| Robert Anderson | commander of Fort Sumter |
| cottoncracy | highest social class in South |
| free blacks | lowest social class in south |
| American colonization Society | end slavery with Liberia Africa |
| abolitionist | wanted to end slavery |
| underground railroad | helped slaves reach freedom |
| Harriet Tubman | started Underground Railroad |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine admitted as free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | California admitted as free state |
| Fugitive Slave Law | judges were paid to send blacks back to south |
| John Brown | murdered 5 men |
| Bleeding Kansas | name of Kansas in 1856 |
| Dred Scott | former slave who went to court |
| Harper's Ferry, Virginia | Where Brown led slave revolt |
