| A | B |
|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the Union |
| Fort Sumter | location where the first shots of the war were fired |
| Clara Barton | founder of the American Red Cross |
| Stephen Douglas | Lincoln's political opponent for the U.S. Senate and President |
| Harriet Tubman | conductor for the Underground Railroad and Union spy |
| "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate General killed |
| Frederick Douglas | former slave who became an aboliltionist |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who later in the war commanded all of the Confederate forces |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who led troops through Georgia on his "March to the Sea" |
| Gettysburg Address | speech given to commemorate a cemetery |
| U.S. Grant | successful Union general who defeated Confederate troops to end the Civil War |
| North | Union |
| South | Confederacy |
| Conscription | drating men into the army |
| Appomatox Courthouse | location of Lee's surrender to Grant |
| Battle of Bull Run | Confederate victory in which the Union realized that they were not going to win the war quickly |
| Battle of Vicksburg | month and a half long battle which the Union won using seige (attrition) tactics |
| Battle of Antietam | A Confederate "retreat" allowed the Union to claim victory and allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freeing of slaves in rebelling areas |
| House Divided | speech given by Abraham Lincoln in the campaign for U.S. Senate |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President of the U.S. during the Civil War |
| Richmond, Virginia | home of the Confederate capital |
| Washington, D.C. | home of the Union capital |
| Merrimac & Monitor | battle of iron clads - changed warfare |
| Matthew Brady | photographer of Civil War |
| Battle of Gettysburg | turning point in the war - North began winning |
