| A | B |
|---|
| border state | states between the North and South |
| home front | the places where civilians are active when their country is at war |
| civilians | people who are not in the military |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order freeing the slaves |
| Gettysburg Address | one of the most insipring speeches ever given by an American leader |
| assassination | the murder of a political leader |
| sharecropping | a sustem of working the land in which the worker was paid with a "share" of the crop |
| Reconstruction | a time of rebuilding after the Civil War |
| scalawags | people who support something for their own gain |
| carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to try to help with Reconstruction or to make money buying land or opening a business |
| segregation | separartion of black people and white people |
| Robert E. Lee | led the Confederate troops during the Civil War |
| Clara Barton | helped care for Union troops during the war and founded the American Red Cross |
| Ulysses S. Grant | led the Union troops during the Civil War |
| Vicksburg | victory here gave the Union control of the Mississippi River |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | destroyed parts of the South on his March to the Sea |
| Appomattox | the Virginia town where Lee surrendered to Grant |
| John Wilkes Booth | actor who assassinated Lincoln |
| Tomb of the Unknowns | memorial to unknown American soldiers in Arlington National Cemetary |
| Mr. Cyr | master of all 5th grade knowledge and strongest man alive |
