| A | B |
|---|
| 13th Amendment | Freed the slaves |
| 14th Amendment | Gave citizenship to blacks |
| 15th Amendment | Gave black men the right to vote. |
| 1861 - 1865 | Years of the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States. President during the Civil War |
| Civil War | An American war between the Northern and Southern States |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom and lost. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1. 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions in rebellion against the union. |
| Fort Sumter | The fort in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. |
| Gettysburg | The site in Pennsylvania of a battle which lasted from July 1 to July 3, 1863. There were over 51,000 casualties. |
| Gettysburg Address | President Lincoln's speech dedicating the battlefield of Gettysburg as a cemetery. |
| Jefferson Davis | The president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
| Lincoln's Assassination | On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot at Ford's theater by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next day. |
| Lincoln's first and second Inaugural Addresses | Lincoln's speeches at his inauguration as president. |
| plantations | large farms in the South |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Army. |
| Surrender at Appomatox | The meeting between Generals Lee and Grant which the Confederacy surrendered - ending the Civil War. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The commander of the Union Army. |
| Vicksburg | The Union defeated the Confederacy at the Siege of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. |
