| A | B |
|---|
| emancipation | freeing of the slaves |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in the area REBELLING against the Union |
| contrabands | an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | African American Civil War regiment that captured Fort Wagner in South Carolina |
| Copperheads | a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
| habeas corpus | the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
| Clara Barton | Volunteer who helped wounded Union soldiers by organizing collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefieild |
| Battle of Gettysburg | a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| George Pickett | commander of the largest Confederate unit |
| Pickett's Charge | a failed Confederate attack during the Civil War led by General George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech given by President Abe Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of the Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War |
| Wilderness Campaign | a series of battles between Union and Confederate forces in northern and central Virginia that delayed the Union capture of Richmond |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | carried out Union plans to destroy southern railroads and industries |
| total war | a type of war in which an army destroys its opponents ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources |
| Appomattox Courthouse | the location where General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender, thus ending the Civil War |
