| A | B |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of United States |
| Jefferson Davis | Confederate President |
| Fort Sumter | First shots of Civil War fired here |
| Gettysburg | often seen as the turning point of the War |
| Antietam | Allowed Lincoln to claim a victory and prepare Emancipation Proclamation |
| Industry | An advantage of the north |
| Strong generals | An advantage of the South |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves behind Confederate lines |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general; hero at Vicksburg |
| Stonewall Jackson | responsible for Confederate Victory at 1st Manassas |
| Habeas Corpus | Suspended by Lincoln |
| William T. Sherman | led famous March to the Sea |
| Andersonville | prisoner of war camp |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy to defeat South |