| A | B |
|---|
| the state which came into the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850 | California |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial book | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| the party formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Republican party |
| direct result of Lincoln's election as President | South Carolina seceded |
| immediate cause of the Civil War | Confederacy fired on Ft. Sumter |
| capital of Confederacy | Richmond, VA |
| state formed by counties who broke away from a Confederate state | West Virginia |
| Union advantages | larger population, better industry |
| Confederate advantages | better generals, better marksmanship, better horsemanship |
| Union battle strategy | Anaconda Plan |
| battle in which Stonewall Jackson received his nickname | Bull Run |
| battle in which A. S. Johnston was killed | Shiloh |
| first major Confederate city captured by Union forces | Nashville |
| led the Army of the Potomac against R. E. Lee in the Seven Days' Battle | George McClellan |
| two battles that marked the turning point of the war | Gettysburg and Vicksburg |
| significance of the battle of Antietam | Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| major aim of the Emancipation Proclamation | weaken the Confederacy |
| result of the battle of the Monitor and Virginia | seen later in ironclad and steel ships |
| Sherman destroyed the South | March to the Sea |
| Lee surrendered to Grant here | Appomattox Courthouse |
| the Confederacy hoped for diplomatic recognition from Britain and France after this battle | Antietam |
| what killed most Union soldiers during the war | disease and infection |
| the North aimed to destroy the southern economy through this | blockade of all Southern ports |
| began the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| first female U. S. doctor | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| Crimean War nurse, mother of modern nursing | Florence Nightingale |
| 1860 Constitutional Union party presidential candidate | John Bell |
| 1860 Republican party presidential candidate | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1860 Northern Democratic party presidential candidate | Stephen A. Douglas |
| 1860 Southern Democratic party presidential candidate | John C. Breckenridge |
| president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
